But there is a danger that military strategists will look at the battlefield in Ukraine and see little more than a catalog of weapons to buy. Although lessons about particular weapons systems are ...

The 2026 documents increase the party’s direct role in managing the country’s affairs while also embracing the private sector and sidelining state-owned enterprises. Vietnam’s leaders are betting that ...

Browse all articles written by David V. Gioe for Foreign Affairs.

And as Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and its aftermath have made painfully clear, any strategy that ignores the Palestinian issue is doomed to fail. Not every problem in the Middle East ...

Following this humiliation, Europe issued sweeping sanctions against Russia and joined the United States in offering extensive support to Ukraine. Most of the continent’s countries severed almost all ...

Browse all articles written by Abraham Newman for Foreign Affairs.

HENRY FARRELL is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at ...

NICHOLAS EBERSTADT is Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research. Eberstadt has served as a consultant to ...

He threatened to pull out of the alliance after winning office, and then again when running for president in 2024. Just a few weeks ago, at a NATO meeting, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ...

As the United States races to build the infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, it faces a constraint: legitimacy at the local level. Data centers, transmission lines, and ...

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, from his rise to power to today’s war in Ukraine, and including his crackdown on Russian civil society, his position within the ...

In the Declaration of Independence, a chief complaint was that King George III “affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” George Washington himself worried about ...