Foreign Affairs Summaries and Reviews
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A Foreign Policy for the Post-Pandemic World
How to Prepare for the Next Crisis
Foreign Affairs, 2020
A New Order in the Middle East?
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s Rapprochement Could Transform the Region
Foreign Affairs, 2023
A Path to War With Iran
How Washington’s Escalation Could Lead to Unintended Catastrophe
Foreign Affairs, 2019
A Safety Net for the Green Economy
How to Protect Workers Hurt By the Fight Against Climate Change
Foreign Affairs, 2021
America’s Democratic Unraveling
Countries Fail the Same Way Businesses Do, Gradually and Then Suddenly
Foreign Affairs, 2020
Beijing’s Building Boom
How the West Surrendered Global Infrastructure Development to China
Foreign Affairs, 2018
China’s Coming Upheaval
Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping
Foreign Affairs, 2020
China’s Consumption Conundrum
Can Xi Get Chinese Citizens to Stop Saving and Start Spending?
Foreign Affairs, 2023
China’s Southern Strategy
Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America
Foreign Affairs, 2022
Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values
As Washington Steps Back, Beijing Will Take Charge
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Competition Without Catastrophe
How America Can Both Challenge and Coexist with China
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Demystifying Belt and Road
The Struggle to Define China’s “Project of the Century”
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Geopolitics in the C-Suite
More Than Ever, U.S. Foreign Policy Depends on Corporations—and Vice Versa
Foreign Affairs, 2024
Global Migration Drives Global Democracy
How Workers Abroad Weaken Dictators Back Home
Foreign Affairs, 2021
How to Avoid a Venezuelan Civil War
Latin American Solutions for a Latin American Problem
Foreign Affairs, 2017
How to Make Trade Work for Workers
Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism
Foreign Affairs, 2020
How to Solve the Global Water Crisis
The Real Challenges Are Not Technical, but Political
Foreign Affairs, 2018
Imagining Refugia
Could a New Transnational Polity Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?
Foreign Affairs, 2017
Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?
Hypervigilance Beats Preparation for Unpredictable Crises
Foreign Affairs, 2021
It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony
Issuing the World’s Reserve Currency Comes at Too High a Price
Foreign Affairs, 2020
Only Saving Lives Will Save Livelihoods
The Right Way to Understand Pandemic Economics
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The Age of Zombie Democracies
Why Autocrats Are Abandoning Even the Pretense of Democratic Rituals
Foreign Affairs, 2021
The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy
The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power – and for the Global Order
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The Divestment Delusion
Why Banning Fossil Fuel Investments Would Crush Africa
Foreign Affairs, 2021
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
Foreign Affairs, 2023
The End of China’s Economic Miracle
How Beijing’s Struggles Could Be an Opportunity for Washington
Foreign Affairs, 2023
The End of Globalization?
What Russia’s War in Ukraine Means for the World Economy
Foreign Affairs, 2022
The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions
MBS Must Cut His Losses to Avert Catastrophe
Foreign Affairs, 2020