Foreign Affairs Summaries and Reviews

See all summaries and reviews from Foreign Affairs at a glance.

8 Article

A Foreign Policy for the Post-Pandemic World

How to Prepare for the Next Crisis
Michael H. Fuchs
Foreign Affairs, 2020
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

A New Truman Doctrine

Grand Strategy in a Hyperconnected World
Tim Kaine
Foreign Affairs, 2017
7 Article

A Path to War With Iran

How Washington’s Escalation Could Lead to Unintended Catastrophe
Philip H. Gordon
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

A Safety Net for the Green Economy

How to Protect Workers Hurt By the Fight Against Climate Change
Simone Tagliapietra
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

American Hustle

What Mueller Found – and Didn’t Find – About Trump and Russia
Stephen Kotkin
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

American Power After Afghanistan

How to Rightsize the Country’s Global Role
Jessica T. Mathews
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

America’s China Policy Is Not Working

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

America’s Democratic Unraveling

Countries Fail the Same Way Businesses Do, Gradually and Then Suddenly
Daron Acemoglu
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

America’s Great Satan

The 40-Year Obsession with Iran
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

An Era of Authoritarian Influence?

How Democracies Should Respond
Thorsten Benner
Foreign Affairs, 2017
7 Article

Antimonopoly Power

The Global Fight Against Corporate Concentration
Barry C. Lynn
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Beijing’s Building Boom

How the West Surrendered Global Infrastructure Development to China
Bushra Bataineh et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2018
8 Article

China's New Revolution

The Reign of Xi Jinping
Elizabeth C. Economy
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

China’s Coming Upheaval

Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping
Minxin Pei
Foreign Affairs, 2020
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
9 Article

China’s Southern Strategy

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

Clash of Civilizations?

The Next Pattern of Conflict
Samuel P. Huntington
Foreign Affairs, 1993
7 Article

Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values

As Washington Steps Back, Beijing Will Take Charge
Kristine Lee
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

Competition Without Catastrophe

How America Can Both Challenge and Coexist with China
Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan
Foreign Affairs, 2019
7 Article

Confronting Iran

The Trump Administration’s Strategy
Michael R. Pompeo
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

Congo’s Slide into Chaos

How a State Fails
Stuart A. Reid
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

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

Demystifying Belt and Road

The Struggle to Define China’s “Project of the Century”
Yuen Yuen Ang
Foreign Affairs, 2019