Foreign Policy

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers.

It’s expensive to destroy a people without killing them, but Beijing is willing to pay the price.

With options limited for fighting terrorists, negotiations may be the best remaining alternative.

Ill-advised land swaps and population transfers won’t bring peace. They’re more likely to revive the bloodshed that plagued the Balkans during the 1990s.

The Kremlin is filling the vacuum created by the U.S. retreat from the Middle East—now, with a buffer zone in Idlib.

An open letter to Donald Trump's new North Korea envoy on how to avoid Armageddon.

Americans have forgotten that their long history of intervention in the Middle East started in Damascus. Now it might end there.

More pressure on Tehran won’t work. Here’s what Trump should really do.

Joint military exercises have kept the relationship strong despite Trump, but that could soon change.

World leaders have never really trusted each other—but the president's behavior undermines American foreign policy anyway.

In a country where even the anti-corruption prosecutors abuse their power, it's hard to say who the good guys are.

The diversity problem predates this administration, but some State Department officials fear it’s getting worse.

The increase reflects a shift in focus away from counterterrorism and toward possible conflict with China or Russia.

If Trump’s advisors are all off giving irrelevant speeches on old preoccupations, who is minding the president?

Despite mounting violence, the United States will continue supporting airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Italian populism is still fueled by corruption scandals that are over two decades old.

Introducing Foreign Policy's Fall 2018 print edition.

The AI arms race won’t be like previous competitions, and both the United States and China could be left in the dust.

Can Andrew Marshall, the U.S. military’s longtime oracle, still predict the future?

The U.S. Defense Department and big tech need each other—but getting along won’t be easy