Home
About FP
Subscribe to Premium for 20% Off
Reprints
Register
Log In
Log In
Help
News & Ideas
Breaking News
The Cable
Ideas
Regions
Americas
Asia
Europe
Middle East & Africa
South Asia
Channels
Democracy Lab
Economics & Finance
Energy
National Security
Peace Channel
Tea Leaf Nation
Tech & Cyber
Galleries
Photo Essay
Infographics
Lists
Map Room
Voices
Voices
Recent
Best Defense
Shadow Gov't
Elephants in the Room
Trump’s First 100 Days
Shadow Government
Hacking and Cyber
The Islamic State
About FP
Subscribe to Premium for 20% Off
Reprints
Register
Log In
Log In
Help
News & Ideas
Regions
Channels
Galleries
Voices
The Magazine
Our Magazine Archive
This Month's Issue
Breaking News
The Cable
Ideas
After Months of Discord with White House, Pentagon Taps Key …
Paul McLeary
|
13 hours ago
More Good News: There Are Fluorescent Frogs in South America
Christian Paz
|
15 hours ago
Theresa May Proves Irony Is Dead, Says It’s Not the Time …
Emily Tamkin
|
16 hours ago
Irish PM Kenny Meets Trump Ahead of St. Patrick’s Day
Emily Tamkin
|
17 hours ago
Saudi Arabia, China Sign Deals Worth Up to $65 Billion
Robbie Gramer
|
18 hours ago
3 Takeaways from the Dutch Election Results
Emily Tamkin
|
17 hours ago
SitRep: Pentagon Wins Budget; State Loses; Tillerson Speaks…
Paul McLeary
|
21 hours ago
Hawaii Court Stops Trump’s Second Travel Ban
Kavitha Surana
|
19 hours ago
Dutch Apparently Fend off Far-Right Election Challenge
Emily Tamkin
|
1 day ago
Passport Is On Holiday (But We'll Still Compare Cat Photos …
FP Staff
|
4 months ago
President of Philippines: God Told Me to Stop Calling People…
Siobhán O'Grady
|
5 months ago
These 1-Star Yelp Reviews of Embassies Make Us Question the …
FP Staff
|
5 months ago
Chechnya Sends Cops to Weddings to Make Sure Brides Don’t …
Siobhán O'Grady
|
5 months ago
How a Meeting with the Dalai Lama Lost This Holocaust …
Siobhán O'Grady
|
5 months ago
Thai Mourners Are Leaving Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of…
Siobhán O'Grady
|
5 months ago
Gambia: The ICC Should Be Called the International Caucasian…
Siobhán O'Grady
|
5 months ago
Human Rights Expert to U.N. Chief: It's Not Too Late to Say …
Colum Lynch
|
5 months ago
Hacked: Putin Aide’s Emails Detail Alleged Plot to …
Reid Standish
|
5 months ago
Tillerson To U.N. Rights Council: Reform or We’re Leaving
Colum Lynch
|
3 days ago
White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United …
Colum Lynch
|
4 days ago
U.N. Seeks More Than $100 Million to Tackle Violent Extremism
Colum Lynch
|
1 week ago
Trump White House Shopping for Technology to Plug Leaks
Elias Groll
|
1 week ago
Tillerson Has Little Time for the United Nations
Colum Lynch
|
2 weeks ago
Trump Taps Putin Critic for Senior White House Position
John Hudson
|
2 weeks ago
Trump Administration to Loosen Hiring Requirements to Beef …
Molly O’Toole
|
3 weeks ago
Trump Critic Poised for Senior State Department Job
John Hudson
|
3 weeks ago
Flynn Pressured U.N. on Israel Vote Before Taking Office
Colum Lynch
|
4 weeks ago
Americas
Asia
Europe
Middle East & Africa
South Asia
The Swiss Cheese Presidency: Why Trump's Inability to Fill …
Christine Wormuth
|
5 hours ago
After Months of Discord with White House, Pentagon Taps Key …
Paul McLeary
|
13 hours ago
More Good News: There Are Fluorescent Frogs in South America
Christian Paz
|
15 hours ago
A Step Toward Better National Security Coordination in the …
Peter Feaver
|
12 hours ago
An Army program that helps officers become critical …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
19 hours ago
Hawaii Court Stops Trump’s Second Travel Ban
Kavitha Surana
|
19 hours ago
5 Questions Tillerson Will Have to Answer in Asia
Colin Willett
|
1 day ago
DOJ Charges Russian Intelligence in Huge Yahoo Hack
Elias Groll
|
2 days ago
Can Tillerson Save the State Department From Trump’s Axe?
David McKean
|
2 days ago
Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?
David Rothkopf
|
16 hours ago
Saudi Arabia, China Sign Deals Worth Up to $65 Billion
Robbie Gramer
|
18 hours ago
SitRep: Pentagon Wins Budget; State Loses; Tillerson Speaks…
Paul McLeary
|
21 hours ago
Trump’s Trade Pick Delivers Assurances to Senate
Jessica Holzer
|
2 days ago
SitRep: China’s Latest Island Adventure; White House …
Paul McLeary
|
2 days ago
American Unrest Proves China Got the Internet Right
Ran Jijun
|
2 days ago
5 Questions That Underpin Rex Tillerson’s Asia Trip
Mike Green
|
2 days ago
Japan, South Korea, and U.S. Begin Drills off North Korea
Emily Tamkin
|
3 days ago
Beware the Ides of Leaving the Human Rights Council
Suzanne Nossel
|
3 days ago
10 Murders, 3 Nazis, and Germany's Moment of Reckoning
Jacob Kushner
|
10 hours ago
America First, But Germany Second
Marcel Fratzscher
|
13 hours ago
Irish PM Kenny Meets Trump Ahead of St. Patrick’s Day
Emily Tamkin
|
17 hours ago
The Brexit Delusion and the Battle for Scotland
Alex Massie
|
2 days ago
Watch: The Global Flow of Asylum-Seekers In One Interactive …
Robbie Gramer
|
2 days ago
One-Time Trump National Security Pick Registers As Foreign …
Robbie Gramer
|
3 days ago
An EU Court Okays Headscarf Bans in the Workplace
Ruby Mellen
|
3 days ago
If Trump Wants to End Legal Abortion, He’s Going to Have …
Kim Ghattas
|
3 days ago
Did Turkey Just Kill the Refugee Deal With Europe?
Emily Tamkin
|
3 days ago
Al Qaeda Is Starting to Swallow the Syrian Opposition
Charles Lister
|
22 hours ago
U.N. Warns Yemen Could Be on Brink of Famine
Robbie Gramer
|
2 days ago
Somali Pirates Hijack Merchant Ship For First Time in Five …
Robbie Gramer
|
2 days ago
Beware the Ides of Leaving the Human Rights Council
Suzanne Nossel
|
3 days ago
SitRep: Trump’s New Drone Rules; White House Loosening …
Paul McLeary
|
3 days ago
Jobs, Not Bombs, Will Win the War on Terror
Zuri Linetsky
|
3 days ago
Advice to Trump's Middle East Envoy: Don't Stop with …
Daniel Shapiro
|
4 days ago
SitRep: The Wait for Raqqa; North Korean Missile Plans; …
Paul McLeary
|
4 days ago
SitRep: New Deployments in Old Wars; General Takes …
Paul McLeary
|
7 days ago
The Graveyard of Empires and Big Data
Sharon Weinberger
|
22 hours ago
‘The President is Aware’
David Rothkopf
|
3 days ago
India’s Optimism Is a Welcome Antidote to Western Pessimism
Daniel Twining
|
4 days ago
What to Make of Indian State Election Results
Emily Tamkin
|
4 days ago
Special Visas for Afghan Interpreters Are Running Out
Kavitha Surana
|
6 days ago
More U.S. Troops Bound for Afghanistan, As Marines, …
Paul McLeary
|
1 week ago
Does India's Hindu Heartland Still Love Modi?
Pamposh Raina
|
1 week ago
Trump’s Ramped-Up Bombing in Yemen Signals More Aggressive…
Dan De Luce
|
1 week ago
Interview: Indian Immigration in the Time of Trump
Emily Tamkin
|
1 week ago
Democracy Lab
Economics & Finance
Energy
National Security
Peace Channel
Tea Leaf Nation
Tech & Cyber
Democracy Lab Says Goodbye
Christian Caryl
|
3 months ago
The Kremlin’s Economic Grip on Europe
Martin Vladimirov
|
3 months ago
Kiev Versus Kiev
Sergii Leshchenko
|
3 months ago
How to Rebuild Eastern Ukraine
Josh Cohen
|
3 months ago
How a Fictional President Is Helping Ukrainians Rethink …
Katherine Jacobsen
|
3 months ago
How Egypt’s Copts Fell Out of Love with President Sisi
Johannes Makar
|
3 months ago
Can Mexico Cope With Trump?
Robert Looney
|
3 months ago
A Genocide in the Making
Francis Wade
|
4 months ago
The Long View on Burma
Hunter Marston
|
4 months ago
Too Little, Too Late
Tom O'Bryan
|
4 months ago
Libya’s Hollow Victory Over the Islamic State
Tarek Megerisi
|
4 months ago
Facebooking Ourselves to Death
Ilya Lozovsky
|
4 months ago
India’s Optimism Is a Welcome Antidote to Western Pessimism
Daniel Twining
|
4 days ago
Ross Wants to Start Redoing NAFTA By This Summer
David Francis
|
7 days ago
Trump Hotel in Baku Partnered With ‘Notoriously Corrupt…
Robbie Gramer
|
2 weeks ago
Trump Takes Aim at the WTO
David Francis
|
2 weeks ago
Buffett on what made America great — persuasive, but with …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 weeks ago
Scrapping NAFTA Will Wreak Havoc on Auto Industry Supply …
David Francis
|
2 weeks ago
Trump Team Quietly Probes Ways To Bypass, Undermine WTO
Emily Tamkin
|
3 weeks ago
Infographic: Here's How the Global GDP Is Divvied Up
Robbie Gramer
|
3 weeks ago
Don’t Look Now, But There’s Another Greek Debt Crisis …
David Francis
|
4 weeks ago
Abe-Trump Meeting May Yield Clues On Trump’s Trade Vision
David Francis
|
1 month ago
Even Free Traders Think NAFTA Needs an Update
David Francis
|
1 month ago
Trump Sours Relations With Mexico After Tariff Talk
David Francis
|
2 months ago
What Exactly Is Going on Between Russia and Belarus?
Emily Tamkin
|
1 month ago
Greasy Palms Dept.: Congress To Repeal Oil and Mining Anti-…
Robbie Gramer
|
1 month ago
Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Export Oil
Robbie Gramer
|
2 months ago
Trump Brings the Keystone Pipeline Back from the Dead
Robbie Gramer
|
2 months ago
Obama Just Quietly Authored a Wonky Study on Climate Change …
Robbie Gramer
|
2 months ago
Donald Trump: Making the World Safe for Dictators
James Traub
|
2 months ago
The Great Bee Die-Off
Pierre-Paul Pariseau
|
3 months ago
Climate Change Is Mauling the Arctic Worse Than We Even …
Robbie Gramer
|
3 months ago
Trump Expected to Tap Oil Chief As Secretary of State
Emily Tamkin
|
3 months ago
Latest Wikileaks Dump Sheds New Light on Erdogan’s Power …
Robbie Gramer
|
3 months ago
Trump Reaches Out to Central Asia, Looking For a Back Door …
Reid Standish
|
4 months ago
Amid Oil Glut, OPEC Finally Agrees to Curb Crude Production
Robbie Gramer
|
4 months ago
General Flynn was paid by the government of Turkey during …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
7 days ago
The Curious Case of Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s New Terrorism…
Colin Kahl
|
2 weeks ago
National Security Advisor McMaster’s Three Civil-Military …
Peter Feaver
|
3 weeks ago
Trump’s NSC, State Department, and Pentagon Need to Play …
Kelly Magsamen
|
3 weeks ago
From ‘Dereliction of Duty’ to Trump’s White House
Dan De Luce
|
1 week ago
Last man standing: McMaster for NSA?
Thomas E. Ricks
|
4 weeks ago
Time for Some Creative Solutions At the NSC
Peter Feaver
|
4 weeks ago
Can Any National Security Advisor Tame President Trump?
Kori Schake
|
4 weeks ago
A Mattis Protege Poised to Take the Helm of Trump’s NSC
Dan De Luce
|
4 weeks ago
Robert Harward plans a housecleaning of Trump’s National …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
4 weeks ago
What to Look for in a National Security Advisor
Dov Zakheim
|
1 month ago
Jared Kushner Should Be National Security Advisor, and Other…
Peter Feaver
|
1 month ago
Beware the Ides of Leaving the Human Rights Council
Suzanne Nossel
|
3 days ago
Cracking the Cyprus Code
Kavitha Surana
|
3 days ago
From SEALs to All-Out War: Why Rushing Into Yemen Is a …
Jon Finer
|
1 month ago
If Trump Wants Safe Zones in Syria, There Have to Be Boots …
Fred Hof
|
1 month ago
Why Trump’s Short-Term Focus Could Put America Last
Kristin M. Lord
|
1 month ago
There's Such a Thing as Too Much Security, and 3 Other Tips …
Tamara Cofman Wittes
|
1 month ago
13 International Relations Buzzwords That Need to Get Taken …
Richard N. Haass
|
1 month ago
The Legacy Ban Ki-moon Leaves Behind
Colum Lynch
|
2 months ago
The U.N. Has Great Potential for Trump!
Suzanne Nossel
|
3 months ago
Colombian Government Says New Peace Deal Final, Senate to …
Emily Tamkin
|
4 months ago
The United States Needs a Post-Election Peace Plan
Brian Klaas
|
4 months ago
Ukraine Has Opened Pandora’s Database of Corruption
Ian Bateson
|
4 months ago
American Unrest Proves China Got the Internet Right
Ran Jijun
|
2 days ago
Trump's Top China Expert Isn't a China Expert
Melissa Chan
|
3 days ago
Why Is China So ... Uncool?
George Gao
|
6 days ago
Don't Call it the New Chinese Global Order (Yet)
Björn Jerdén
|
1 week ago
China Steps Into the Latin American Void Trump Has Left …
Kevin P. Gallagher
|
2 weeks ago
After ISIS Threat, China May Have to Get off Sidelines in …
Michael Clarke
|
2 weeks ago
China Quietly Abandoning Bid for ‘New Model of Great Power…
David Wertime
|
2 weeks ago
China's New Multibillion-Dollar Target Market: LGBT Youth
Joanna Chiu
|
2 weeks ago
How China Became a Sci-Fi Powerhouse
Emily Feng
|
3 weeks ago
Is the Search for a China-Hollywood Blockbuster Doomed?
Clifford Coonan
|
3 weeks ago
'The Chinese Learned that Trump Blinks'
David Wertime
|
1 month ago
China's Youth Admire America Far More than We Knew
Eric Fish
|
1 month ago
Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?
David Rothkopf
|
16 hours ago
Boaty McBoatface Makes Inaugural Voyage to Antarctica
Robbie Gramer
|
4 days ago
The Diplomatic Dust-Up Between France and Bolivia — Over a…
Robbie Gramer
|
2 weeks ago
House Intel Panel Agrees to Investigate Any Trump-Russia Ties
Elias Groll
|
2 weeks ago
News So Foreign It's Out of This World: Scientists Discover …
Robbie Gramer
|
3 weeks ago
There’s An Eighth Continent That’s Been Hiding From Us …
Robbie Gramer
|
4 weeks ago
The Rules of the Brave New Cyberworld
Jared Cohen
|
4 weeks ago
Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Trolls Trump Hard Over …
Christian Paz
|
1 month ago
NSA Contractor Could Face 200 Years in Prison for Massive …
Elias Groll
|
1 month ago
Photo Essay
Infographics
Lists
Map Room
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
7 days ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
1 week ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
1 week ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
1 week ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
1 month ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
1 month ago
China Celebrates the Lunar New Year
FP Staff
|
1 month ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
2 months ago
The World in Photos This Week
FP Staff
|
2 months ago
Watch: The Global Flow of Asylum-Seekers In One Interactive …
Robbie Gramer
|
2 days ago
Infographic: Here's How the Global GDP Is Divvied Up
Robbie Gramer
|
3 weeks ago
Here’s What Russia’s Military Build-Up in the Arctic …
Robbie Gramer
|
2 months ago
Mapping the Spread of the ISIS Plague
C.K. Hickey
|
1 year ago
Mapped: What Each EU Country Impacted by New Quota Plan …
Siobhán O'Grady
|
1 year ago
Workers of the World, Divided!
Benjamin Soloway
|
2 years ago
Europe's Migrant Crisis By the Numbers
Elaine Ayo
|
2 years ago
Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China's New …
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
|
1 year ago
Mapping Boko Haram's Growing Insurgency
Reid Standish
|
2 years ago
Watch: All the World’s Global Trade in One Interactive Map
Robbie Gramer
|
2 months ago
Belgium and the Netherlands Redraw Borders in a Peaceful …
Robbie Gramer
|
4 months ago
Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire
Nick Danforth
|
5 months ago
Mapped: Brexit's Aftermath
Benjamin Soloway
|
9 months ago
Mapped: The Islamic State Is Losing Its Territory -- and Fast
Henry Johnson
|
1 year ago
Mapping the Spread of the ISIS Plague
C.K. Hickey
|
1 year ago
Mapped: The Threat of the Zika Virus
Megan Alpert
|
1 year ago
Mapped: Corruption Across the World
Henry Johnson
|
1 year ago
Mapped: The Refugee Crisis in the Aegean Sea
Siobhán O'Grady
|
1 year ago
Voices
Recent
Best Defense
Shadow Gov't
Elephants in the Room
David Bosco
Max Boot
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
Bruce Stokes
James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
Lauren Wolfe
Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
Trump Knows the Feds Are Closing In on Him
Max Boot
|
12 hours ago
Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?
David Rothkopf
|
16 hours ago
Making our Army great again
Thomas E. Ricks
|
19 hours ago
An Army program that helps officers become critical …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
19 hours ago
Donald Trump Needs to Own the Yemen Raid
Kori Schake
|
2 days ago
Things I didn’t know (a continuing series)
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
Book excerpt: 'The Warbird'
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
Firings, reliefs, and such: Special ‘rotating carousel of …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
The GOP Is America's Party of White Nationalism
Max Boot
|
2 days ago
Making our Army great again
Thomas E. Ricks
|
19 hours ago
An Army program that helps officers become critical …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
19 hours ago
Things I didn’t know (a continuing series)
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
Book excerpt: 'The Warbird'
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
Firings, reliefs, and such: Special ‘rotating carousel of …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
2 days ago
The Marine scandal confirms the need to address the U.S. …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
3 days ago
Future of War hoedown next week in D.C.
Thomas E. Ricks
|
3 days ago
My favorite phrase in U.S. military history
Thomas E. Ricks
|
3 days ago
Turnabout is fair play: A Marine officer interviews Tom …
Thomas E. Ricks
|
4 days ago
The Swiss Cheese Presidency: Why Trump's Inability to Fill …
Christine Wormuth
|
5 hours ago
5 Questions Tillerson Will Have to Answer in Asia
Colin Willett
|
1 day ago
Can Tillerson Save the State Department From Trump’s Axe?
David McKean
|
2 days ago
6 Policies Trump Should Pursue to Block Putin in Ukraine
Michael Carpenter
|
2 days ago
Advice to Trump's Middle East Envoy: Don't Stop with …
Daniel Shapiro
|
4 days ago
Trump and Merkel Need to Find a Way to Work Together
Charles Kupchan
|
3 days ago
Trump’s Cuts to USAID Would Imperil the United States
Mona Yacoubian
|
7 days ago
4 Reasons Trump Is Worse for America Than Nixon
Derek Chollet
|
7 days ago
Trump Shouldn't Slash Diplomacy. He'll Need It.
Sheba Crocker
|
7 days ago
A Step Toward Better National Security Coordination in the …
Peter Feaver
|
12 hours ago
5 Questions That Underpin Rex Tillerson’s Asia Trip
Mike Green
|
2 days ago
Give Rex Tillerson a Chance
Will Inboden
|
3 days ago
India’s Optimism Is a Welcome Antidote to Western Pessimism
Daniel Twining
|
4 days ago
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist …
Edward Stafford
|
2 weeks ago
Michael Anton Is Donald Trump’s Ben Rhodes – But Is He …
Paul D. Miller
|
2 weeks ago
Donald Trump Is Tarnishing America’s Brand
Brian P. McKeon
|
2 weeks ago
Economic Coercion, with a Chinese Twist
Eric B. Lorber
|
2 weeks ago
Trump Leaves Europe with Three Bad Options
Kori Schake
|
3 weeks ago
FP Insights
×
You have read
0
of 5
free articles
X
Unlimited access to ForeignPolicy.com
Subscriber-only newsletters
The Entire 46 Year Printed Archive — Every Issue Ever Printed
FP Insights Tool
Subscribe to
FP
Premium
at 20% Off
Post to
Cancel
click me