Foreign Policy

Running for reelection, the Polish government is flailing in every direction to keep its populist credibility.

As the country marks 63 years of independence, insecurity and corruption continue to drive highly educated Nigerians to live and work abroad.

Two detained former executives from developer China Evergrande Group won’t be the only scapegoats.

Budapest is willing to anger the EU and NATO if it means closer ties with Russia.

A much-lauded pledge to decarbonize needs funding

Chaos in Congress jeopardizes Biden’s efforts to re-up ties with Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.

One year after an uprising over women’s rights, the government has passed a harsh new hijab law.

Beijing’s censorship has pernicious effects on artists and educational institutions—but abandoning all cultural ties would do more harm than good.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson charts the roots of 21st-century disinformation—and how American democracy began to falter.

But countering China’s growing regional clout is proving to be an uphill battle.

But Nairobi’s own human rights record may hamper its ability to curb the island’s gang violence.

The whole region wants to jump into the fray.

Mediation offers from China aren’t made in good faith.

Prigozhin’s mutiny helped expose the false arguments for Russia’s invasion.

The judiciary needs to strike down Netanyahu’s judicial reform before he turns Israel into a sham democracy—just as Viktor Orban did in Hungary.

Other states have a legal and moral duty to stop Moscow.

Dhaka has taken on new importance as relations with China freeze.

Brussels has become the last thing anyone imagined: a stage for political emotion.

How Seoul is using arms sales to build ties beyond Washington.

Military history suggests Ukraine’s current campaign is far more daunting than the public understands.