Foreign Affairs

As threats continue to evolve online, U.S. Cyber Command will remain ready to defend the United States in the years ahead.

World leaders must heed the right warnings from history as the international order decays.

Growing numbers of people no longer find religion a necessary source of support and meaning in their lives.

Reinvigorated North American supply chains would support a more globally competitive continent and stymie China's increasing ambitions.

Washington must move past the myths of liberal internationalism and reconsider its views about world order.

In "The Europeans," Orlando Figes shows how Europe’s cosmopolitan culture developed in the nineteenth century.

Trump tried to overturn U.S. foreign policy without offering a substitute. The result is a United States and a world that are worse off.

History is everywhere in India, deployed to enrage and incite.

Domestic political dynamics in the two countries risk fueling a cycle of escalation. Meanwhile, the odds of a diplomatic resolution dwindle by the day.

Facing pressure at home and criticism abroad, China wants to telegraph strength even on its rugged Himalayan border with India.

Why the end of lockdown looks so different around the world.

The United States needs the contagion equivalent of the National Weather Service.

COVID-19 has been a boon for far-right extremists.

A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States' Cold-War Strategy of election meddling has evolved in the twenty-first century.

Though the long history of African American engagement overseas is often omitted from conventional narratives about U.S. foreign policy, it has profoundly shaped contemporary global understandings of race, and has complicated—when it has not outright undermined—official U.S. government messaging about American values.

But before enacting a publicly funded compensation program that would require individuals to surrender their right to sue, Congress should carefully consider the challenges—and some alternatives.

Decoupling from China isn't just perilous—it’s impossible.

If the world doesn’t learn the right lessons from its failure to prepare and act on them with the speed, resources, and political and societal commitment they deserve, the toll next time could be considerably steeper.

The world following the coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to be radically different from the one that preceded it.

The winner of the emerging clean energy race will determine the economic and geopolitical balance of power for decades to come. The United States should lead the way by embracing carbon pricing as a cost-effective and politically viable climate policy breakthrough.