Foreign Affairs

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a Russian intelligence analyst. It is March 1, 2020. Your task is to determine why President Donald Trump authorized the Doha Agreement, a...

The parents began gathering in Mogadishu’s streets on Jan. 20. Soon, reports began trickling in about similar protests in other towns and cities across the country. The spark was an...

In three years, Foreign Affairs will celebrate a century in print. Created by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1922, the publication has since its inception acted as one of...

They were the closing remarks of a man who was beaten and bloodied by the Washington game: Never lose sight of your most valuable asset, the most valuable asset you...

Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History (New York: Basic Books, 2017), 720 pp., $35.00. IN 2005, the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis released his book, The Cold...

John Mearsheimer’s and Stephen Walt’s recent Foreign Affairs article advocating a return to offshore balancing is certainly generating a debate amongst the doyens of US foreign policy. Tom Switzer, for example,...

Recently, Aaron Bazin published seven charts that explain the American way of war. Expanding on his work, I offer the single graphic that displays the United States military’s activities over...

For what reasons can states legitimately go to war? The most obvious one is self-defense—when one’s country is attacked by foreign forces, whether by organized armies or by non-state terrorist...

It’s time to ask a hard question: What would it mean for U.S. interests if Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front party, were to capture the French...

Since at least 2004, Chinese security thinking has undergone a steady shift toward emphasizing the maritime domain. As its economy has grown, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become...

With the ongoing controversy over China’s activities in the South China Sea, it is timely to explore how Chinese worldviews play out in practice. In particular, it is worth considering...

Every year has its share of significant events, and this year is no exception. Here is my list of the ten most significant events of the year. You may want...