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No twenty-first-century event has shaped the United States and its role in the world as much as 9/11. The attacks pierced the complacency of the post-Cold War decade and shattered [...]

Writing in Foreign Affairs last year, then presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to 'address the world as it is' in his effort to restore American leadership.(1) President Biden's team faces [...]

One of the host successful U.S. foreign policies of the last 50 years may well have been containment, which the United States used from 1947 until the end of the [...]

Fifty years ago, in the first issue of Foreign Policy, a who's who of who was and would be graced the pages of a neatly conceived journal. Imagined by two [...]

December 1970 must have seemed an inauspicious moment to launch a new magazine on international affairs. The fighting in Vietnam ground on, even expanding into Cambodia and Laos, with little [...]

Neither pure isolationism nor unchecked internationalism has served the United States well. It's time for a third option. Over the course of U.S. history, American statecraft has oscillated between two [...]

The record of American failure in the Middle East over the last two decades is long and dismaying. The most obvious catastrophe was the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the [...]

At the outset of the digital age, democracies seemed ascendant. The United States and like-minded countries were at the cutting edge of technological development. Policymakers were pointing to the inherently [...]

AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP with Israel is not a one-way street. Israel's very existence owes much to its superpower ally, from votes for the 1947 UN Palestine partition plan that allowed the [...]

Every policy is a prediction. Tax cuts will boost the economy. Sanctions will slow Iran's nuclear program. Travel bans will limit the spread of COVID-19. These claims all posit a [...]

Present at the Creation is an 800-page memoir written by Dean Acheson, U.S. President Harry Truman's secretary of state. The title, with its biblical echo, was immodest, but in Acheson's [...]

The Chinese Communist Party's initial mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent attempts to exploit the crisis have produced enduring problems for the rest of the world. But the [...]

In the decades after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, the simplistic but widely held belief that the war had been unjustified and unwinnable gave way to 'the Vietnam syndrome'--a conviction [...]

Graft is nothing new; it may be the second-oldest profession. Powerful people and those with access to them have always used kickbacks, pay-to-play schemes, and other corrupt practices to feather [...]

THE Chinese Communist Party initially blamed the December 2019 outbreak of COVID-19 on the consumption of exotic meat purchased at a wet market in Wuhan, the capital city of China's [...]

Throughout its history, the United States has oscillated between two foreign policies. One aims to remake other countries in the American image. The other regards the rest of the world [...]

It is no secret that the transatlantic partnership is at risk. Admittedly, this condition may seem neither new nor unusual. Ever since the United States assumed, on behalf of the [...]

In May 2001, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wrote in the Washington Post about U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan. The column chastised the new president, [...]

Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes argue that the United States' tendency to overcommit to Middle Eastern partners has created 'a moral hazard,' prompting them 'to act in risky and [...]

U.S. President Donald Trump's sharp-elbowed nationalism, opposition to multilateralism and international institutions, and desire to shift costs onto U.S. allies reflect the American public's understandable weariness with acting as the [...]

The 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS) describes China as a revisionist power seeking to displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region. It is an accurate characterization which was resisted [...]

China has begun to assert a grand vision of its own for a new world. Speaking at the Communist Party's nineteenth Congress last October, President Xi Jinping presented his country's [...]

Byline: NPM Bureau WASHINGTON: United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, have agreed in principle to establish a new quadrilateral diplomatic platform focused on enhancing regional connectivity, the Biden administration has [...]

THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF applying to Iran the set of policies that caused the relatively peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s, often called the 'Victory [...]

For decades, global health has been a core part of American foreign policy. Through supporting the well-being of some of the world's most vulnerable populations, it is clear that America [...]

But where is our excellency? America says it's back. But where are its ambassadors? CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT people were nowhere to be seen as Joe Biden touched down last week in [...]

America is an engine of European integration, intentionally or not F ROM THE Big Mac to the nuclear bomb, the list of 20th-century America's achievements is long. In a remarkable [...]

A return to traditional diplomacy in Geneva JOE BIDEN was 12 in 1955 when Dwight Eisenhower sat down in Geneva with Nikita Khrushchev for the first bilateral summit between the [...]

Iranian warships seem bound for Venezuela. Will they get there? IT IS NOT exactly the Cuban missile crisis. In early June, a pair of warships rounded the Cape of Good [...]

China fears containment by American-led alliances. It should worry more about why it is distrusted LEADERS OF CHINA and America share an obsession: the notion that a large enough coalition [...]

A big shift among China-watchers WHEN RICHARD NIXON made his historic visit to Beijing in February 1972, he reassured Mao Zedong that neither of their countries had plans for global [...]