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8 Article

The New Economic Security State

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

Revenge of the Patriarchs

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

America’s China Policy Is Not Working

The Dangers of a Broad Decoupling
Henry M. Paulson Jr.
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

Not Just Another Recession

Why the Global Economy May Never Be the Same
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Foreign Affairs, 2022
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 Resurgence of the Rest

Can Emerging Markets Find New Paths to Growth?
Ruchir Sharma
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

How Free Trade Can Fight Inflation

More Competition Means Lower Prices
Gary Hufbauer et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2022
7 Article

Antimonopoly Power

The Global Fight Against Corporate Concentration
Barry C. Lynn
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Podcast
Dan Kurtz-Phelan and Stephen Kotkin
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
8 Article

Xi Is Running Out of Time

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

The Never-Ending Brexit

The True—and Mounting—Costs of Leaving the EU
Anand Menon
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

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

Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?

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

The Divestment Delusion

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

The Price of Nostalgia

America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat
Adam S. Posen
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
8 Article

Global Migration Drives Global Democracy

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

The Pandemic Depression

The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same
Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart
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
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

Faith-Based Finance

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

Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?

How Washington Should End Its Debt Obsession
Jason Furman and Lawrence H. Summers
Foreign Affairs, 2019
9 Article

The Free-Trade Paradox

The Bad Politics of a Good Idea
Alan S. Blinder
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

Confronting Iran

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

Venezuela’s Suicide

Lessons From a Failed State
Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

How to Avoid an Avoidable War

Ten Questions About the New US-China Strategy
Kevin Rudd
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

The Crisis Next Time

What We Should Have Learned From 2008
Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

What the World Should Have Learned in 2008
Adam Tooze
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

The New Arab Order

Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East
Marc Lynch
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

Good Idea in Theory, Failing in Practice
Jeffrey Ball
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Article

Warming World

Why Climate Change Matters More Than Anything Else
Joshua Busby
Foreign Affairs, 2018
8 Article

Russia as It Is

A Grand Strategy for Confronting Putin
Michael McFaul
Foreign Affairs, 2018
7 Article

What Ails Mexican Democracy

Too Much Hope, Too Little Change
Gladys I. McCormick and Matthew R. Cleary
Foreign Affairs, 2018
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
8 Article

Gene Editing for Good

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

Europe’s Libya Problem

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

Clash of Civilizations?

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

India's Tax Reform

The GST Is an Important, Limited First Step
Praveen Chakravarty
Foreign Affairs, 2017
7 Article

The Return of Racism?

Race and Inequality After Charlottesville
Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman
Foreign Affairs, 2017