Foreign Affairs Summaries and Reviews

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9 Article

The End of China’s Economic Miracle

How Beijing’s Struggles Could Be an Opportunity for Washington
Adam S. Posen
Foreign Affairs, 2023
9 Article

China’s Southern Strategy

Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America
Nadège Rolland
Foreign Affairs, 2022
9 Article

Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East

Economic Despair and the Triumph of the China Model
Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins
Foreign Affairs, 2022
9 Article

The Divestment Delusion

Why Banning Fossil Fuel Investments Would Crush Africa
Yemi Osinbajo
Foreign Affairs, 2021
9 Article

The Taiwan Temptation

Why Beijing Might Resort to Force
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Foreign Affairs, 2021
9 Article
Francis Fukuyama
Foreign Affairs, 2020
9 Article

The Digital Dictators

How Technology Strengthens Autocracy
Andrea Kendall-Taylor et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2020
9 Article

The Shoals of Ukraine

Where American Illusions and Great-Power Politics Collide
Serhii Plokhy and Mary Elise Sarotte
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

Faith-Based Finance

How Wall Street Became a Cult of Risk
Gillian Tett
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article
Christian Brose
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics
Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

The Free-Trade Paradox

The Bad Politics of a Good Idea
Alan S. Blinder
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

How to Avoid an Avoidable War

Ten Questions About the New US-China Strategy
Kevin Rudd
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

What the World Should Have Learned in 2008
Adam Tooze
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

Good Idea in Theory, Failing in Practice
Jeffrey Ball
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Warming World

Why Climate Change Matters More Than Anything Else
Joshua Busby
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

How America Lost Faith in Expertise

And Why That's a Giant Problem
Tom Nichols
Foreign Affairs, 2017
8 Article

The New Economic Security State

How De-risking Will Remake Geopolitics
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
Foreign Affairs, 2023
8 Article

Revenge of the Patriarchs

Why Autocrats Fear Women
Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks
Foreign Affairs, 2022
8 Article

The End of America’s Exit Strategy in the Middle East

Hamas’s Assault—and Iran’s Role in It—Lays Bare Washington’s Illusions
Suzanne Maloney
Foreign Affairs, 2023
8 Article

America’s China Policy Is Not Working

The Dangers of a Broad Decoupling
Henry M. Paulson Jr.
Foreign Affairs, 2023
8 Article

A New Order in the Middle East?

Iran and Saudi Arabia’s Rapprochement Could Transform the Region
Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr
Foreign Affairs, 2023
8 Article

China’s Consumption Conundrum

Can Xi Get Chinese Citizens to Stop Saving and Start Spending?
Damien Ma and Houze Song
Foreign Affairs, 2023
8 Article

Not Just Another Recession

Why the Global Economy May Never Be the Same
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Foreign Affairs, 2022