Foreign Policy

Data and accountability mechanisms can encourage states to avoid their worst impulses.

Brussels must take harsher measures against ruling parties in Budapest and Warsaw if it’s serious about upholding democratic norms.

Moscow’s deal with Pyongyang for more artillery rounds will fill Russian gaps—but likely not turn the tables in Ukraine.

Ukrainians differ on what would keep their nation safe from Russia.

Today, there are more terror groups in existence, in more countries around the world, and with more territory under their control than ever before.

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.