Foreign Policy

Erdogan has two priorities: to chart a more assertive presence for Turkey and to leverage Ankara’s position inside Western institutions to make that happen.

A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.

Paris is ramping up military spending. But critics worry it’s going to the wrong places.

Amid a financing push for modern infrastructure, existing problems may go overlooked.

From Quebec to Ukraine, nowhere on Earth is untouched by climate change’s catastrophic reach.

“We shouldn’t expect coherence on China policy when the United States is inherently incoherent on it.”

NATO is revamping defense plans that will be a whole lot harder to execute with Sweden on the outside.

A Cold War crouch is inimical to a free, open, and flourishing society.

Those born after the bloc’s founding charter was signed are overwhelmingly committed to its success.

Media saturation, manipulation of the economy, and culture wars helped the longtime leader hold on to his base.

But the two countries’ defense chiefs won’t be holding a meeting on the summit’s sidelines.

The world’s two largest economies are walking a tightrope between bad blood and good business.

Washington should start letting other countries take the lead.

Test yourself on the week of May 27: Another round of airstrikes batters Syria, a Senegalese opposition leader is arrested, and China makes another appeal for peace.

Signaling neediness to an adversary has never been effective.

Kais Saied’s government refuses to reckon with the country’s rampant anti-Semitism.

As U.S.-China tension increases, so does discussion about whether European states are pulling their weight.

Moscow ramped up its efforts to make Ukrainians Russian. Ukraine is planning to fight back.

In Brasília, leaders weighed how to make continental cooperation more durable after a past attempt sputtered.

Unrest over the conviction of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko tests a country long seen as a regional pillar of stability.