Foreign Affairs Summaries and Reviews

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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

The New Economic Security State

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

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

America’s China Policy Is Not Working

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

The World According to Xi Jinping

What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
Kevin Rudd
Foreign Affairs, 2022
8 Article

Not Just Another Recession

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

The Dangerous Decade

A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis
Richard Haass
Foreign Affairs, 2022
9 Article

China’s Southern Strategy

Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America
Nadège Rolland
Foreign Affairs, 2022
8 Podcast
Dan Kurtz-Phelan and Stephen Kotkin
Foreign Affairs, 2022
8 Article

How Free Trade Can Fight Inflation

More Competition Means Lower Prices
Gary Hufbauer et al.
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
8 Article

Revenge of the Patriarchs

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

The End of Globalization?

What Russia’s War in Ukraine Means for the World Economy
Adam S. Posen
Foreign Affairs, 2022
7 Article

The Never-Ending Brexit

The True—and Mounting—Costs of Leaving the EU
Anand Menon
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

What Putin Learned From the Soviet Collapse

To Preserve Its Global Ambitions, Russia Is Managing Its Economic Limits
Richard Connolly and Michael Kofman
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Xi Is Running Out of Time

China’s Economy Heads for a Hard Landing
Daniel H. Rosen
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Why Afghanistan Fell

An Insider’s Account of What Went Wrong
Ajmal Ahmady
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

The United States of Sanctions

The Use and Abuse of Economic Coercion
Daniel W. Drezner
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

American Power After Afghanistan

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

The Divestment Delusion

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

The Age of Zombie Democracies

Why Autocrats Are Abandoning Even the Pretense of Democratic Rituals
Kenneth Roth
Foreign Affairs, 2021
7 Article

Antimonopoly Power

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

The Hearts-and-Minds Myth

How America Gets Counterinsurgency Wrong
Jacqueline L. Hazelton
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Global Migration Drives Global Democracy

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

The Taiwan Temptation

Why Beijing Might Resort to Force
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Foreign Affairs, 2021
7 Article

The Resurgence of the Rest

Can Emerging Markets Find New Paths to Growth?
Ruchir Sharma
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?

Hypervigilance Beats Preparation for Unpredictable Crises
Niall Ferguson
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

The Price of Nostalgia

America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat
Adam S. Posen
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

There Will Not Be a New Cold War

The Limits of U.S.-Chinese Competition
Thomas J. Christensen
Foreign Affairs, 2021
7 Article

Latin America’s Darkest Hour

Can Biden Heal a Fractured Hemisphere?
Oliver Stuenkel
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

What Happened to Social Mobility in America?

A New Aristocracy Has a Lock on Capital and Jobs
Branko Milanović
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Latin America’s Lost Decades

The Toll of Inequality in the Age of COVID-19
Luis Alberto Moreno
Foreign Affairs, 2020
7 Article

The Pandemic Depression

The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same
Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart
Foreign Affairs, 2020
7 Article

The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions

MBS Must Cut His Losses to Avert Catastrophe
F. Gregory Gause III
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

The Age of Magic Money

Can Endless Spending Prevent Economic Calamity?
Sebastian Mallaby
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

How to Make Trade Work for Workers

Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism
Robert E. Lighthizer
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

Is Taiwan the Next Hong Kong?

China Tests the Limits of Impunity
Michael Green and Evan Medeiros
Foreign Affairs, 2020
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

It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony

Issuing the World’s Reserve Currency Comes at Too High a Price
Simon Tilford and Hans Kundnani
Foreign Affairs, 2020
9 Article
Francis Fukuyama
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

America’s Democratic Unraveling

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

China’s Coming Upheaval

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

The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy

The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power – and for the Global Order
Kevin Rudd
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

Only Saving Lives Will Save Livelihoods

The Right Way to Understand Pandemic Economics
Rajeev Cherukupalli and Tom Frieden
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

The Future of the Dollar

U.S. Financial Power Depends on Washington, Not Beijing
Henry M. Paulson Jr.
Foreign Affairs, 2020
9 Article

The Digital Dictators

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

The New China Scare

Why America Shouldn’t Panic About Its Latest Challenger
Fareed Zakaria
Foreign Affairs, 2020
7 Article

The Unwanted Wars

Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever
Robert Malley
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

War Is Not Over

What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict
Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

The Shoals of Ukraine

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

Without Democracy, China Will Rise No Farther

Beijing Can’t Compete With Washington Until It Reckons With Its People
Jiwei Ci
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

America’s Great Satan

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

There Will Be a One-State Solution

But What Kind of State Will It Be?
Yousef Munayyer
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

The United States Should Fear a Faltering China

Beijing’s Assertiveness Betrays Its Desperation
Michael Beckley
Foreign Affairs, 2019
8 Article

Putin the Great

Russia’s Imperial Impostor
Susan B. Glasser
Foreign Affairs, 2019
7 Article

The Sources of Chinese Conduct

Are Washington and Beijing Fighting a New Cold War?
Odd Arne Westad
Foreign Affairs, 2019
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