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Jan 26, 2021
The Russian regime has barely started to tap its vast toolkit for violence and intimidation.
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Jan 26, 2021
The incumbent president won in a landslide, but a populist right-wing candidate raised eyebrows in a country that has so far avoided extremes.
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Jan 26, 2021
Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.
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Jan 26, 2021
America's reality TV autocrat was a homegrown creation.
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Jan 26, 2021
Conte's ruling coalition is out—but that may not be the end for the prime minister.
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Jan 26, 2021
But Philippe Etienne says France won't surrender its dream of "strategic autonomy."
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Jan 26, 2021
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is staffing her New York and Washington offices with a range of career and political foreign-policy hands with extensive experience in United Nations affairs.
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Jan 26, 2021
It probably won't work out well for either party.
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Jan 26, 2021
The Hashemite Kingdom views custodianship of Jerusalem's holy sites as a core national interest. Rumors that Riyadh is seeking to displace Amman would humiliate and weaken the Jordanian monarchy and endanger regional security.
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Jan 26, 2021
Garry Kasparov on why this weekend's protests may be the beginning of the end of autocracy in Russia.
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Jan 26, 2021
Garry Kasparov on why this weekend's protests may be the beginning of the end of autocracy in Russia.
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Jan 26, 2021
The Italian prime minister takes the fall to avoid humiliation in an upcoming vote, but could yet stay on as the country's leader.
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Jan 26, 2021
The Polish government ordered the economy to shut down. Small-business owners organized a mutiny.
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Jan 25, 2021
There's no sign of defection from Russia's security services, let alone the army.
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Jan 25, 2021
The country's postelection violence threatens a humanitarian catastrophe—and a continued standoff between Russia and France for influence in Central Africa.
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Jan 25, 2021
The Arms Control and Regional Security working group convened after the 1991 Madrid peace conference failed, but it offers important lessons for today.
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Jan 25, 2021
Abbas agrees to face voters more than a decade after his term expired.
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Jan 25, 2021
The Sikkim clash and a declassified Indo-Pacific strategy raise tough questions for New Delhi.
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Jan 25, 2021
The Sikkim clash and a declassified Indo-Pacific strategy raise tough questions for New Delhi.
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Jan 25, 2021
The Russian president's ill-gotten wealth has proved a flash point for mounting nationwide protests, with another planned for next weekend.
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Jan 25, 2021
Fighting drags on because it places too little burden on the public and politicians. That has to change.
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Jan 25, 2021
Netanyahu is courting Arab voters in a bid to win the election, curry favor with Biden, save the Abraham Accords, and stay out of prison.
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Jan 25, 2021
Over 100,000 Russians took to the streets across the country on Saturday, heeding a call from detained activist Alexei Navalny.
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Jan 24, 2021
Bob Gersony was a mostly anonymous U.S. diplomat—and his country's best model for creating change in the world.
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Jan 24, 2021
A global body has helped poorer nations counter COVID-19, but less technologically advanced countries need a similar institution to protect against the coming plague of cyberattacks.
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Jan 23, 2021
Paul Rusesabagina is the latest dissident to be caught in the Rwandan ruler's authoritarian net. Western governments must stop portraying President Paul Kagame's repressive regime as a development success story.
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Jan 23, 2021
The evidence of a great green wave is now overwhelming. And it will only get better.
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Jan 23, 2021
National security experts need to put food back on the table as a core issue.
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Jan 22, 2021
FP's preemptive preview of the coming administration.
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Jan 22, 2021
With Avril Haines and Lloyd Austin confirmed, key officials are starting to offer hints of what's in store.
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Jan 22, 2021
Russia's opposition leader is forcing the system to make decisions it wants to avoid.
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Jan 22, 2021
This was a great week for America. But the country's system is broken in ways even Biden is unlikely to fix.
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Jan 22, 2021
The world's pharmacy is looking to inoculations to build friendly ties around the world—and compete with China.
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Jan 22, 2021
Proxy wars pitting France and Chad against Russia and Rwanda threaten to destabilize the entire region while subjecting Central Africans to more violence and instability.
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Jan 22, 2021
There are unmistakable signs of transatlantic trouble that even the arrival of a pro-European U.S. administration can't paper over.
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Jan 22, 2021
The sprawling conspiracy theory's visions of a hidden world have always been an excuse for failure.
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Jan 22, 2021
But Biden and his team are likely to resist using Taiwan as a cudgel against China the way Trump did.
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Jan 22, 2021
After 9/11, Washington formed a national commission that made the country safer. It should do the same now.
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Jan 22, 2021
Deplatformed extremist groups are turning to providers in authoritarian states.
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Jan 22, 2021
Liberal democracies must work to recreate a sense of shared identity online.
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Jan 22, 2021
Agencies need to adapt to an information-heavy era.
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Jan 22, 2021
Only days into his presidency, he's already changed the game on immigration.
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Jan 22, 2021
Biden's call for an intelligence review into recent Russian actions marks a clean break from the Trump era.
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Jan 21, 2021
The outgoing secretary of state prioritized his political ambitions over America's interests.
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Jan 21, 2021
Failed immigration reform gave rise to Trumpism. Success could finally cool the debate.
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Jan 21, 2021
And how Biden can use economic theory to stave off more riots.
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Jan 21, 2021
In negotiations with Beijing over a new investment treaty, Brussels has asserted its autonomy from Washington. A human rights focus could repair the transatlantic rift.
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Jan 21, 2021
Upcoming elections offer an opportunity to turn Iraq around—and contain Iran in the process.
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Jan 21, 2021
Identity politics is painted as un-American—but historical patriots thought otherwise.
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Jan 21, 2021
Biden's cabinet nominees have made a lot of promises in their Senate confirmation hearings. Whether they keep them will define the president's foreign-policy legacy.
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Jan 21, 2021
If it comes back, the United States can push the organization to focus more on initiatives that further the country's foreign-policy goals.
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Jan 21, 2021
Beijing's actions demand a rethinking of failed engagement.
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Jan 21, 2021
Taking a page from Beijing, Rome is positioning itself as the center of trade, energy, and transportation in Southern Europe and beyond.
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Jan 21, 2021
In major countries, the new U.S. president starts with favorable approval ratings from day one—with the notable exception of Russia.
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Jan 21, 2021
Parading a new submarine-launched missile made a big buzz in North Korea. The real buzz is what it could mean for Pyongyang's nuclear deterrent.
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Jan 21, 2021
The U.S. military secured Joe Biden's inauguration. But the new administration also needs to treat the armed forces as a potential threat.
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Jan 21, 2021
The Biden administration plans a quick reform of American diplomacy—but fixing the rot requires going much bigger.
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Jan 21, 2021
Iran's president has promised a fresh start, while Canada gave Biden's first executive orders a mixed response.
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Jan 20, 2021
The announcement on the heels of Biden's inauguration could be an attempt to gauge the new administration's positions.
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Jan 20, 2021
U.S. conservatives have forged dangerous ties on abortion with reactionaries abroad.
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Jan 20, 2021
The Biden administration must move beyond superficial inclusion and actively promote gender equality globally while seeking to reverse the harm done in the name of forever wars.
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Jan 20, 2021
Signs are adding up that the explosives in Beirut were intended for Damascus—but Lebanese elites are trying to stop the investigation.
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Jan 20, 2021
How we conceptualize the role social media played in the Capitol siege will set the stage for information governance across the globe.
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Jan 20, 2021
With Trump gone, Biden talks up the need for unity and renewal after four years of bitter division.
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Jan 20, 2021
The United States needs to follow South Korea's post-impeachment example.
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Jan 20, 2021
Republicans should start off on the right foot as we transition into the opposition.
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Jan 20, 2021
After years of neglect under Trump, the region needs fresh attention from Biden.
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Jan 20, 2021
Instead of talking about "binders full of women," the new president has appointed several key female leaders in the national security agencies—but the U.S. government is still a long way from gender parity.
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Jan 20, 2021
Britain's prime minister has always been a political weathervane, and he knows the wind from across the Atlantic is now blowing in a different direction.
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Jan 20, 2021
Biden plans a raft of executive orders on his first day as the post-Trump era dawns.
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Jan 19, 2021
The appointments come as part of a broader sweep to reward the president's supporters with late-game promotions at the Defense Department.
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Jan 19, 2021
A botched process will end up helping Beijing's propaganda.
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Jan 19, 2021
An open position in China is an opportunity to show U.S. diversity.
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Jan 19, 2021
Avril Haines vowed to keep politics out of intelligence.
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Jan 19, 2021
The U.S. president-elect promises a humble foreign policy. That can start by coming to terms with America's diminished capacity to lead the world after Trump.
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Jan 19, 2021
The Trump administration callously dismissed the deaths of the most vulnerable, including minorities.
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Jan 19, 2021
From climate change to China to ending the forever wars, here are 10 of the biggest challenges facing the Biden foreign-policy team as it takes office.
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Jan 19, 2021
The Trump administration's final parting shot at Beijing poses a diplomatic challenge for Biden on his first day in office.
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan. 6 gave the world's democracies a glimpse of their own mortality, but it can also be a catalyst for revival.
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Jan 19, 2021
Turkey's adventures abroad are about more than hydrocarbons. They're a bold and expensive attempt at geopolitical revisionism.
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Jan 19, 2021
Internal emails reveal Pompeo may have benefited from tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds for upkeep at his residence.
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Jan 19, 2021
A maze of checkpoints stretches across Washington's commercial and residential districts, webbed in caution tape and patrolled by thousands of troops.
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Jan 19, 2021
The tools are already in place to arrest the Jan. 6 attackers.
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Jan 19, 2021
And what the United States and Europe can do about it.
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Jan 19, 2021
As Silicon Valley flails to combat an insurrection at home, Europe is marching ahead with a plan to revise the web's basic rulebook.
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Jan 19, 2021
Five places to start undoing the Trump administration's damage and rebuilding U.S. leadership.
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Jan 19, 2021
India's tricky regional balance of power isn't made any easier by sectarian tensions.
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Jan 19, 2021
Biden's picks for secretaries of state, defense, and the treasury all go before Senate Committees today.
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Jan 18, 2021
Roberta Jacobson, a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, will join the NSC and help oversee an anticipated U-turn in U.S. policy on migration and asylum.
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Jan 18, 2021
Angela Merkel's most likely successor is promising continuity with her style of politics—but that may not be up to him.
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Jan 18, 2021
Trump has protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that he ordered the assassination of a U.S. resident. The new administration should reveal the truth.
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Jan 18, 2021
Twitter and Facebook have set a precedent in removing Trump from their platforms—but can they apply the same principle globally?
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Jan 18, 2021
Women who accuse men of sexual assault have faced backlash, high-profile defamation lawsuits, and even retaliatory police investigations.
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Jan 18, 2021
A state built on Black repression and local violence was smugly coded as a mature democracy.
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Jan 18, 2021
The famed political philosopher still believes in democracy's ultimate triumph but says the "end of history" has been sidetracked by unforeseen forces.
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Jan 18, 2021
After the Capitol attack, the U.S. government needs to recognize racist extremists as a national security risk and create a high-level counterterrorism czar to disrupt their financing and dismantle their networks.
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Jan 16, 2021
Why Biden thinks the way he does about foreign policy, what the future holds for an America on the brink, and what the Cold War policy of containment means for our current moment—all from our latest magazine issue.
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Jan 15, 2021
But congressional sources say it's highly unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.
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Jan 15, 2021
The country is campaigning for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, but taking on that role will clash with some fundamental tenets of Swiss foreign policy.
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Jan 15, 2021
And it is time to treat it like one.
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