Foreign Policy

What happens when the world is no longer unipolar, bipolar, or even multipolar?

How an ex-banker teamed up with Barbados’s prime minister to fix a lopsided global financial system.

The delegation of African leaders was met with a missile barrage on Kyiv and made little progress in talks with Zelensky.

Test yourself on the week of June 10: A Nigerian official is arrested, a former European leader dies, and Putin makes a confession.

Striving parents once saw it as the language of the future, but attitudes to school immersion programs in the U.S. are changing.

A strategic partnership of two great democracies will counter the rising influence of techno-authoritarians.

The new push against Russian forces has raised endgame scenarios.

We asked the latest generative AI system to analyze Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. Here’s how it fared against a college student.

An indictment of the ex-president overshadows the beginning of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

Next month’s meeting of Western allies will leave the war-torn country mostly empty-handed.

Colombia announced plans for a major cease-fire with guerrillas. Will it hold?

The expulsion of journalists shows how far the relationship has deteriorated.

European economists are putting the pedal to the metal to slow inflation while the U.S. Federal Reserve hits the brakes.

U.S. environmental measures have China as an unspoken target.

Without a playbook to turn to, officials are still grasping for solutions.

Anti-nuclear weapons activists have a new best friend: the Catholic Church.

Defense deals and tech ties underpin Modi’s visit to Washington.

The AI Act instills greater privacy standards, stricter transparency laws, and steeper fines for failing to cooperate.

The cargo shows how the global south is balancing relations with Moscow and the West.

The defenses that made the country unique are falling one by one—leaving political discontent and spiritual voids exposed to al Qaeda.