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
6 Article

Erdogan’s Way

The Rise and Rule of Turkey’s Islamist Shapeshifter
Kaya Genc
Foreign Affairs, 2019
7 Article

Europe’s Hamilton Moment

A New Kind of Federalism for the Continent
Pierpaolo Barbieri and Shahin Vallée
Foreign Affairs, 2017
8 Article

Europe’s Libya Problem

How to Stem the Flow of Migrants
Sabina Henneberg and Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski
Foreign Affairs, 2017
9 Article

Faith-Based Finance

How Wall Street Became a Cult of Risk
Gillian Tett
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

Gene Editing for Good

How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development
Bill Gates
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Geopolitics in the C-Suite

More Than Ever, U.S. Foreign Policy Depends on Corporations—and Vice Versa
Jami Miscik et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2024
8 Article

Global Migration Drives Global Democracy

How Workers Abroad Weaken Dictators Back Home
Abel Escribà-Folch et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Globalization’s Wrong Turn

And How It Hurt America
Dani Rodrik
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

Hard Truths in Syria

America Can’t Do More With Less, and It Shouldn’t Try
Brett McGurk
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

How America Lost Faith in Expertise

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

How China Interferes in Australia

And How Democracies Can Push Back
John Garnaut
Foreign Affairs, 2018