Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that ...

Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew formal alliances. This approach has paid off, securing U.S ...

The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.

Heaping disdain on the European Union and shunning the traditional liberal values that have anchored the transatlantic alliance, his administration has instead leaned into Europe’s far right.

In one breath, the American president cast Pakistan’s civilian premier and its most powerful general as equals—a clear recognition of the fact that even as Sharif nominally runs the country, real ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

In October, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in South Korea. According to Trump, the meeting with ...

Although U.S. President Donald Trump promised to unleash an economic fusillade on China after his return to the presidency, Beijing has enjoyed a remarkably strong year of diplomacy. The Trump ...

Since September, the Trump administration has conducted over 20 lethal strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, alleging that the boats were carrying drugs from South America. The ...

To many officials in Washington, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appears to be on the ropes. The U.S. military has built up its largest naval deployment in the southern Caribbean since the Cuban ...