Foreign Policy

It’s not just in NATO. It’s one of the alliance’s most confrontational members.

Karl Schlögel recreates a lost world of long queues and shared spaces.

Is economic war between the world’s two biggest economies inevitable?

A new history of Russia’s ruble highlights the reciprocal relationship between autocracy and monetary policy.

“Follow the Money” traces an economy in crisis.

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.

India’s government is only now breaking its monthslong silence over the Manipur mob assault.

Boeing aircraft are still plying tourist routes from Moscow to Turkey, Egypt, and Thailand, and they’re refueling—and possibly getting repairs—en route.

Test yourself on the week of July 15: Panama’s former president is sentenced, tensions escalate in the Korean Peninsula, and Yevgeny Prigozhin rallies his troops.

Moscow used to bang shoes to get attention. Now it blows up grain warehouses.

Today’s nukes would make the destroyer of worlds shudder.

Berlin has published a surprisingly tough China strategy. Can it put it into action?

Why didn’t Prigozhin’s mutiny against Putin change anyone’s mind?

At a summit in Brussels, the EU and CELAC committed to deepening business and political ties.

Stockholm’s expansive freedom of speech laws are complicating its relations with the Islamic world.

Your vacation (hopefully) awaits. And here are the best books to pair with it.

Ukrainians are in Europe to stay. The bloc can help itself—and Kyiv—by better integrating them.

Israel’s support of right-wing politics abroad has backfired.

New Delhi must walk a fine line with the brutal ruling junta as cross-border security issues grow tense.

The Kremlin had threatened South Africa with a declaration of war if Pretoria arrested Putin.