Tag Archives: Foreign Policy

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – FALL 2026 PREVIEW

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How to Survive in a World Without Rules’ – Essays from: Hal Brands, Charles A. Kupchan, Mariana Mazzucato, and Michael Beckley….

How to Survive in a World Without Rules

Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world.

The World’s Only Real Hope of Maintaining Order This article has an audio recording

A proposal for a new international system that is at once centralized and regionalized. 

How to Write Better Rules for Global Finance

The importance of a “common good” compass.

A New Engine of Development

The era of easy growth is over, but rich and poor countries can still join forces.

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW

Ravi Agrawal on FP's Summer 2026 Print Issue

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘the End of…The U.S.-Israel alliance…Neo liberalism…Trans-Atlanticism…Climate Politics…The United Nations…Asylum…Political parties…Chinese growth…Morality…The future….

Where Neoliberalism Went Wrong

The U.S.-Israel Alliance Isn’t Special Anymore

Is Trans-Atlanticism Really Done? This article has an audio recording

How China’s Rise Upended Climate Politics This article has an audio recording

Why an Obituary for the U.N. Is Premature This article has an audio recording

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026 PREVIEW

Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The World After Trump’…

Three Scenarios for a Post-Trump World

Ten years hence, the world will look very different.

Electrostates vs. Petrostates

China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.

A Better Trans-Atlantic Relationship Is Entirely Possible

How Europe and the United States could end up in a healthier alliance.

What Would an Abundance Foreign Policy Look Like?

Turning a popular idea from the American left outward.

Can Middle Powers Gel?

A close reading reveals multiple barriers to such a coalition.

Electrostates vs. Petrostates

China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026 PREVIEW

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FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The World Minus One’ – The emergence of a post-American order.

The World-Minus-One Moment

Managing the global order with an antagonistic Washington. By Amitav Acharya

The Pillars of the Global Nuclear Order Are Cracking

U.S. allies and partners are taking steps toward a post-American nuclear order.Rebecca Lissner,  Erin D. Dumbacher

Can China Replace an Absent America in the Climate Fight?

Beijing never bought the argument that reducing emissions would cause economic harm. Kelly Sims Gallagher

Cyberdefense Enters a Dangerous New Phase

Allies fear that Washington is retreating from leadership at the worst possible time. Rishi Iyengar

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – FALL 2025 PREVIEW

The cover of the fall 2025 print issue of Foreign Policy magazine, showing a tattered flag with a globe on it on a stick.

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End Of Development’

The End of Development

The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative. By Adam Tooze

How Big Finance Ate Foreign Aid

Investors have drained the global south in pursuit of aggressive profit maximization. Daniela Gabor

The Development Economist Who Wasn’t

Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant. Daniel W. Drezner

The Problem With the Global South’s Self-Help Push

Poorer countries have become more integrated but not necessarily more united. David C. Engerman

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘The Historical Presidency’ – Nine essays on what the global past reveals about our confounding present…

The End of Modernity

A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads. By Christopher Clark

Why Compare the Present to the Past?

Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties. Ivan KrastevLeonard Benardo

Is This an American Cultural Revolution?

Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s. Julia LovellNicholas Guyatt

Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine

The military tide may have turned against Putin. Michael Kimmage

Foreign Policy Magazine – Spring 2025 Preview

Introducing Foreign Policy's Spring 2025 Print Issue: Billionaire Rule

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (March 25, 2025): Introducing Foreign Policy’s Spring 2025 Print Issue – Billionaire Rule

Is America a Kleptocracy?

Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between. by Jodi Vittori

When great changes are afoot, we look for a user manual. There will be new patterns of living and new expectations for the future. The rapidly developing corruption landscape in the United States will be no exception.

Elon Musk’s First Principles

The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong? by Adam Tooze

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world—one of the richest in history. But Musk’s power is no longer just tied to the financial wealth derived from Tesla, X, or SpaceX. Musk, by virtue of his close relationship with President Donald Trump, has been given a sweeping mandate to influence policy across the entire U.S. government through the newly founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His life as an entrepreneur sheds important light on his work as a political actor.

How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently

Both have harnessed industrialists for political ends.

Did China Get Billionaires Right?

The party does not grant impunity to the ultra-rich.

Politics: Foreign Affairs Magazine – November 2024

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Foreign Affairs (October 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘World Of War’

The Return of Total War

Understanding—and Preparing for—a New Era of Comprehensive Conflict

By Mara Karlin

Wars Are Not Accidents

Managing Risk in the Face of Escalation

Erik Lin-Greenberg

China’s Agents of Chaos

The Military Logic of Beijing’s Growing Partnerships

Oriana Skylar M

Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Fall 2024

2024 U.S. Election: The World's Advice to the Next White House

Foreign Policy Magazine – September 9, 2024: The new issue features 2024 U.S. Election: The World’s Advice to the Next White House

Letters to the Next President

No matter who wins the White House, these nine thinkers from around the world would like a word. Catherine AshtonJason BordoffArancha GonzálezMartin KimaniMark Malloch-BrownJoseph S. Nye Jr.Danny QuahNirupama RaoJoseph E. Stiglitz

The Most Important Factor in Presidential Debates

A dramatic moment between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford showed the camera really is king.

Is 2024 Really the Most Important Election in History?

Democracy—and the global system—might not be so easily dismantled.

Politics: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Sep/Oct 2024

September/October 2024

Foreign Affairs (August 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘America Adrift’ ….

The Perils of Isolationism

The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World by Condoleezza Rice

America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future

And They’re Already Here by Mark A. Milley and Eric Schmidt

What Was the Biden Doctrine?

Leadership Without HegemonyJessica T. Mathews