Foreign Policy

His foreign-policy achievements were vast—and inseparable from his Christian faith.

The country’s hope lies in the example of a rapidly reforming China at the turn of the 1980s.

A Ukrainian attack on the Russian-occupied peninsula might only be a matter of time.

What kind of country do Russians want to live in after the war?

The Russian president’s announcement draws shock and scorn from Ukraine’s allies.

The fault lines between the Turkish government and universities have increased the fallout from the country’s earthquakes.

Old enmities resurface as Netanyahu’s efforts for a diplomatic reset in Africa are tested.

Russia and the United States hold about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. What happens when they’re no longer talking?

The cutoff of the Matsu Islands may be a dry run for further aggression.

China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both.

Beijing and Washington share an interest in rules for climate experimentation.

The West’s historical anxieties have made it impossible to come to terms with the war’s reality.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made his own speech in a parallel political universe.

Historically, both countries formed their national identities in defiance of Russian imperialism, and together they can defeat it today.

Manila’s geopolitical shift is more than the Biden administration could have hoped for.

Side by side with Zelensky, the U.S. president declares: “We stand here together.”

Ironically, a defeat by Ukraine could trigger Russians to reexamine their national identity.

Washington’s prewar efforts were weak and inadequate.

At the national level, parties insist they won’t work or vote with the far-right AfD—but at the local level, it happens all the time.

Someday, soldiers hope to return home and topple Lukashenko.