Foreign Affairs Summaries and Reviews
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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
A New Order in the Middle East?
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s Rapprochement Could Transform the Region
Foreign Affairs, 2023
China’s Consumption Conundrum
Can Xi Get Chinese Citizens to Stop Saving and Start Spending?
Foreign Affairs, 2023
The World According to Xi Jinping
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
Foreign Affairs, 2022
A Safety Net for the Green Economy
How to Protect Workers Hurt By the Fight Against Climate Change
Foreign Affairs, 2021
What Happened to Social Mobility in America?
A New Aristocracy Has a Lock on Capital and Jobs
Foreign Affairs, 2021
China’s Southern Strategy
Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America
Foreign Affairs, 2022
Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East
Economic Despair and the Triumph of the China Model
Foreign Affairs, 2022
What Putin Got Wrong About Ukraine, Russia, and the West
A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin
Foreign Affairs, 2022
The End of Globalization?
What Russia’s War in Ukraine Means for the World Economy
Foreign Affairs, 2022
What Putin Learned From the Soviet Collapse
To Preserve Its Global Ambitions, Russia Is Managing Its Economic Limits
Foreign Affairs, 2021
Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?
Hypervigilance Beats Preparation for Unpredictable Crises
Foreign Affairs, 2021
The Divestment Delusion
Why Banning Fossil Fuel Investments Would Crush Africa
Foreign Affairs, 2021
The Age of Zombie Democracies
Why Autocrats Are Abandoning Even the Pretense of Democratic Rituals
Foreign Affairs, 2021
Global Migration Drives Global Democracy
How Workers Abroad Weaken Dictators Back Home
Foreign Affairs, 2021
America’s Democratic Unraveling
Countries Fail the Same Way Businesses Do, Gradually and Then Suddenly
Foreign Affairs, 2020
How to Make Trade Work for Workers
Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions
MBS Must Cut His Losses to Avert Catastrophe
Foreign Affairs, 2020
It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony
Issuing the World’s Reserve Currency Comes at Too High a Price
Foreign Affairs, 2020
A Foreign Policy for the Post-Pandemic World
How to Prepare for the Next Crisis
Foreign Affairs, 2020
Only Saving Lives Will Save Livelihoods
The Right Way to Understand Pandemic Economics
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The Future of the Dollar
U.S. Financial Power Depends on Washington, Not Beijing
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy
The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power – and for the Global Order
Foreign Affairs, 2020
China’s Coming Upheaval
Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping
Foreign Affairs, 2020
The United States Should Fear a Faltering China
Beijing’s Assertiveness Betrays Its Desperation
Foreign Affairs, 2019
The Shoals of Ukraine
Where American Illusions and Great-Power Politics Collide
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values
As Washington Steps Back, Beijing Will Take Charge
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Without Democracy, China Will Rise No Farther
Beijing Can’t Compete With Washington Until It Reckons With Its People
Foreign Affairs, 2019
What a War With Iran Would Look Like
Neither Side Wants a Fight, but That Doesn’t Eliminate the Danger
Foreign Affairs, 2019
The Vigilante President
How Duterte’s Brutal Populism Conquered the Philippines
Foreign Affairs, 2019
The Sources of Chinese Conduct
Are Washington and Beijing Fighting a New Cold War?
Foreign Affairs, 2019
What Happens in Sudan Doesn’t Stay in Sudan
Will Khartoum Become the Center of a New African Order or an Appendage of the Gulf?
Foreign Affairs, 2019
The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis Is Not Just a Regional Problem
Latin American Neighbors Are Pulling More Than Their Weight
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Competition Without Catastrophe
How America Can Both Challenge and Coexist with China
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Why Turkey Turned Its Back on the United States and Embraced Russia
A Rift That Began in Iraq and Syria Now Threatens to Divide NATO
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Demystifying Belt and Road
The Struggle to Define China’s “Project of the Century”
Foreign Affairs, 2019
A Path to War With Iran
How Washington’s Escalation Could Lead to Unintended Catastrophe
Foreign Affairs, 2019
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics
Foreign Affairs, 2019
The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis
What the World Should Have Learned in 2008
Foreign Affairs, 2018
Beijing’s Building Boom
How the West Surrendered Global Infrastructure Development to China
Foreign Affairs, 2018
How to Avoid a Venezuelan Civil War
Latin American Solutions for a Latin American Problem
Foreign Affairs, 2017
Imagining Refugia
Could a New Transnational Polity Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?
Foreign Affairs, 2017
The European Roots of the Alt-Right
How Far-Right Ideas Are Going International
Foreign Affairs, 2017
The Remarkable Scale of Turkey’s “Global Purge”
How It Became a Threat to the Rule of Law Everywhere
Foreign Affairs, 2018
How to Solve the Global Water Crisis
The Real Challenges Are Not Technical, but Political
Foreign Affairs, 2018
Why India Is Ready for a Universal Basic Income
How It Could Cut Poverty and Bureaucracy
Foreign Affairs, 2017
