Foreign Policy

What does it mean for an African nation to lead the global future?

A once-steady U.S. ally in Eastern — or possibly Central — Europe moves toward Beijing’s grip.

For the world’s premier superpowers to better confront new international threats, fresh strategic initiatives are needed in a challenging era.

Xi Jinping should be promoting evidence-based medicine, not quackery.

Italians are rearranging the deck chairs as their country irrevocably sinks.

New leadership at Millennium Challenge Corporation comes under scrutiny after “disturbing” comments by a senior official and concerns over Trump’s pick to head the agency.

With Xi Jinping's great power comes great irresponsibility.

Xi Jinping's dictatorship isn't what the end of history was supposed to look like.

By Elias Groll, with Jenna McLaughlin and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian McMassacre? With a CNN report Thursday that President Donald Trump may be on the verge of firing National Security Adviser Lt. General H.R. McMaster, the three-star Army general might be heading for a new position back in the military. McMaster has been the target of attacks ...

Local lawyers are fighting to hold the Philippine government accountable. To win, they need international human rights groups to give them more help.

It's time for Americans to add a new Russian word to their strategic lexicon.

From an international perspective, the 45th president doesn't seem like a bolt from the blue.

FP’s former editor in chief makes her first appearance on The E.R.

They are among the institution's most powerful tools — heed not the critics.

America’s North Korea strategy shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but that hasn't stopped critics from distorting the problem.

If you want to form a more perfect union, in Syria or elsewhere, you can’t rely on men.

With the Islamic State on the brink of military defeat, the State Department is poised to eliminate the office charged with coordinating the fight.

More than a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, we’ve seen what appears to be a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Mandatory military conscription is the French equivalent of Donald Trump’s wall — a pet project that’s become a political albatross.

Italy’s most dangerous populists are the immigrant-hating Catholic fundamentalists of Forza Nuova.