Foreign Policy

The government has asked investors for relief on interest payments, a potential sign of a wider debt crisis among developing countries.

Pompeo's speeches in potential battleground states during official State Department trips have drawn fire from Democratic lawmakers.

A solid blue state is closer to being in play this year—galvanizing Somali Americans in an election they call “do or die.”

U.S. political parties have reshuffled every few decades, and 2020 may be the year they do it again.

For decades, U.S. strategists were thinking short-term. Its leaders should start taking an infinite perspective.

The militant group mines almost half a billion dollars a year from Afghan soil—and wants more.

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

How not to evaluate American grand strategy.

The NGOs and activists criticizing the commission’s inaugural report are distorting its contents.

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has already started. It’s just happening in cyberspace.

U.S. officials still likely to use the General Assembly to push for more pressure on Iran.

The best way to advance U.S. interests isn’t to chastise the United Nations—it’s to participate actively in its proceedings.

The postwar institution designed to maintain global peace has fallen short of many goals, but on the whole succeeded.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

“We don’t need a cheering section,” said Trump’s U.N ambassador. But Washington does need international compliance to make snapback sanctions work.

It doesn’t matter whether Bush or Trump was worse when the problems are the same.

No matter the president, Washington won’t stand for Brasilia’s growing ties with Beijing.

Scotland, six years after its last crack at independence, is hankering to be a “global good gal,” charting its own foreign-policy course independent of London.

Why Pankaj Mishra sees the ideology’s limits more clearly than its most powerful fans.

Republicans prepare to confirm her replacement as Democrats cry foul.