Foreign Affairs

An internationalist foreign policy needs a stronger domestic foundation.

For the United States, patience is the least bad option.

Efforts to control information are only hardening the country’s divisions.

To prevent China’s techno-authoritarianism from gaining traction, the United States must start leading by example.

Although civilian control over the military is deeply embedded in the U.S. Constitution, it's currently under threat.

Wealthy democratic governments have pushed liberal market principles aside in the face of vaccine shortages.

If the Biden administration really wants to move the needle on North Korea, it will need to rethink the assumptions it has inherited about China’s role there.

Beijing bullies its neighbor by unconventional means.

Putin has come to rely on repression to neutralize opponents both big and small. This does not bode well for Russia or its leader.

MBS is now an entrenched and most likely immovable pillar of the Saudi decision-making structure.

Denuclearization is probably out of reach for now—but it might be possible to reduce the nuclear threat.

A boycott of Beijing 2022 will do little to deter China.

Autocrats care more about domestic control than influence abroad

Nothing akin to the U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Chinese Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s is in the offing, regardless of what strategies the United States itself adopts.

Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, joins us to discuss how the United States can confront today’s national security challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to competition with China and Russia.   Moderated by Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Transcript: Foreign Affairs LIVE With Hillary Clinton Monday, March 22, 2021 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. EDT

A great-power steering group is the best option for managing an integrated world no longer overseen by a hegemon. A global concert fits the bill.

A serious global vaccination campaign would mark the beginning of a very different era of American leadership.

The office of Iran’s supreme leader has its eye on the long game.

Strengthening democracy requires letting the people shape policy proposals.

Adding new commitments in Asia will only invite disaster.