Foreign Policy

Why the Russian government is now equating digital journalism with foreign espionage.

In Sunday’s legislative elections, voters overwhelmingly backed a popular president promising change, despite criticisms of democratic backsliding.

The Arab moment has passed. Competition between non-Arab powers—Turkey, Iran, and Israel—will shape the region’s future.

As Sri Lanka shows, when it comes to Chinese debt, small states have agency and great powers have responsibilities.

The new administration, like previous ones, has a Middle East quagmire. But it’s trying some nuanced moves to break free.

As Ankara grows more economically dependent on Beijing, the Turkish government is no longer offering a safe haven or defending Uyghur rights.

As Brazil’s hospitals reach capacity, a new highly transmissible variant has complicated an already haphazard response.

As Washington ramps up to defend democracy, Beijing is still motivated mostly by geography.

A new cease-fire at the Line of Control must avoid problems that have derailed past attempts at peace.

We urgently need a global ethical consensus on how far technological advances can go.

“The World for Sale” peels back the cover on the secretive—and sometimes shady—people who make the modern world go around.

U.S. and European COVID-19 shots aren’t enough. It is time to tap into Africa, Asia, and Latin America’s enormous production capacity.

During crisis after crisis, London’s financial giants cried wolf about leaving. Now the wolf is at the door.

Amid a brutal crackdown, Aung San Suu Kyi has another offense added to her charge sheet.

Once teeming lakes are fast disappearing and with them, a lucrative career for tens of thousands of people in the region.

“Quo Vadis, Aida?” could do for the Srebrenica massacre what “Schindler’s List” accomplished for the Holocaust.

Democrats in Congress signaled they were uneasy with the move and are demanding answers from the White House.

The new U.S. president believes in the legitimacy of American power. Does the rest of the world?

One year after the world declared borders shut, there is still no plan to reduce the toll on millions of lives.

The Biden administration wants to downgrade the region. Here are the countries he can ignore—and the ones he can’t.