Foreign Policy

Robert Lighthizer wants total decoupling from China—without thinking through the consequences.

Our columnists and reporters’ top picks, from a 16th-century treatise to a ’90s fantasy novel.

Changes to the platform have systematically amplified authoritarian state propaganda.

Modi’s party is intent on demonizing Nehru, the country’s first prime minister. A new book adds nuance to the debate.

Thousands of people worldwide were forced from their homes this week to escape deadly environmental disasters.

Integrating Kyiv into the Joint Expeditionary Force would help deter Moscow.

To solve the world’s biggest problems, governments need to take spending to the next level.

Test yourself on the week of July 8: Turkey makes a surprise NATO announcement, Guatemala’s election drama intensifies, and Thailand’s Pita makes a bid for prime minister.

Moscow is weaponizing resources that aren’t even its own.

The green-hydrogen industry is a case study in the potential—for better and worse—of our new economic era.

The political divisions and military rivalries that sparked civil war in Khartoum could erupt in post-Biya Yaoundé.

New Delhi isn’t a party to the U.N. Refugee Convention—leaving migrants in legal limbo.

But for the Bundeswehr to fight will take a culture shift, not just weapons orders.

Regional unity amid Russia’s war in Ukraine was the top priority at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.

Putin faces a choice between punishing Prigozhin and ceding influence and territory to Tehran.

Terrorists are shopping for left-behind American weapons—and turning them against Washington’s friends around the world.

Turkey’s latest extortion attempt won’t dissuade Swedes.

The Kremlin is trying to take control of the Wagner Group’s Middle Eastern empire.

Paul Scharre expands on his FP cover essay.

A joyful and tragicomic novel has been given extra weight by Russia’s invasion.