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Foreign Affairs
Reporting and analysis on foreign affairs and America’s role in the world.
Posted inForeign Policy
America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
Posted inForeign Policy
Trump’s Authoritarian Envy: The Plight and Peril of a Lame Duck
Envious of Putin, Xi, and other authoritarians who have no clock ticking, the president is more dangerous than ever.
Posted inRussia’s War on Ukraine
Putin’s Energy Blitzkrieg is Backfiring
Far from freezing Ukrainians into submission, Moscow’s drone and missile strikes are stiffening their resolve.
Posted inFeatured
Why Europe Needs Its Own Nuclear Deterrent
With the rules-based order collapsing, Europe faces aggressive great powers, including, under Trump, the U.S. The case for a big exception to nuclear nonproliferation.
Posted inForeign Policy
Rules-Based International Order 1. Trump Imperialism 0
The president tried to assert the power to do whatever he wanted on the global stage. The market disagreed.
Posted inPolitics
Greenland and the Benjamins
There’s a method behind Trump’s madness and it’s colored green.
Posted inForeign Policy
As Trump’s Greenland Threat Grows, Europe Begins to Find Its Voice
Trump appeasers are being challenged by reformers who take a tougher stand with the rogue American president.
Posted inMagazine
Germany’s Rearmament Is Stunning
The country is determined to strengthen its armed forces in the wake of Moscow’s aggression and Washington’s volatility, but doing so doesn’t come easily to a nation chastened by its past.
Posted inForeign Policy
NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
