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Since 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been spying on private communications on a mass scale, U.S. President Barack Obama has faced pressure to...

Estonia is the gold standard when it comes to digital innovation. The question is: How does the rest of the world catch up?

Developed and developing countries use poverty as a bargaining tool. Here's how.

So much is going on that it is hard to get a handle on it all, let alone to tie things together neatly in a simple framework. But at Foreign Affairs, we have been...

Ninety-five percent of intercontinental communications traffic travels not by air or through space but by undersea cable. The United States, however, is failing to...

Three years ago, in an essay for Foreign Affairs, we predicted a new era of oil price volatility. The market laughed at us: the next three years were the...

With U.S. hegemony waning and no successor waiting to pick up the baton, the current international system will likely give way to a larger number of power centers...

In today’s dollar-dominated financial system, changes in U.S. monetary policy can have immediate and significant global effects, wrecking economies and toppling...

Machines are substituting for more types of human labor than ever before. This means that the real winners of the future will be neither the providers of cheap...

Last month, Washington pledged to give up control of ICANN, a nonprofit that manages the Internet's domain name system. Critics say the move will empower repressive...