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1Jan 20, '23Putin’s regime is living on borrowed time—and if the West holds firm, the Russian leader’s hold on power will likely collapse in the near future, write @Kasparov63 and @mbk_center.27.7×697k8.3k1.6k136
2Jun 23, '24“To be blunt: for much of the world, it appears that Washington doesn’t value the lives of Palestinian children as much as it values the lives of Israelis or Ukrainians.”20.9×525k2.2k683279
3Oct 25, '23On the eve of Hamas’s October 7 attack, Gazans had very little confidence in their Hamas-led government, according to a newly released survey conducted by @ArabBarometer, @AmaneyJa16.6×416k538253102
4Jan 25, '24“Whatever the price of helping Ukraine is, it’s cheaper than fixing the world if Ukraine doesn’t win.” Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring a 10.4×261k1.9k55966
5Dec 13, '24“Allowing Russia to defeat Ukraine would cost the United States about seven times more than preventing a Russian victory,” writes Elaine McCusker. “Aiding Ukraine, then, is clearly7.5×189k3.3k1.2k240
6Dec 18, '23“If democracy is allowed to fall in Ukraine, U.S. adversaries will perceive weakness, understanding that aggression pays. The price tag for defending U.S. national security against7.3×184k72028630
7Oct 31, '23“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must resign immediately if Israel is to have any chance of rebounding from the destruction he has wreaked on its security, economy, and s7.3×184k79238568
8Apr 3, '25Chinese leaders expect that the Trump administration’s policies will dismantle the foundations of U.S. global hegemony—and create an opportunity for Beijing to expand its influence7.1×179k996543207
9Jan 30, '25“Misguided prosecutions of Chinese-born scientists at American universities have sent a chill through the foreign-born scientific community and have driven some of its best and bri6.0×150k818149174
10Mar 1, '25If Russia topples Kyiv, the United States will need to “spend $808 billion more on defense over the next five years than it has budgeted,” writes Elaine McCusker.5.8×147k825362133
11Dec 7, '19Kurt Tong, who served as U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong until July 2019, considers what Washington can do to secure Hong Kong’s autonomy—and what policies would only make the sit5.3×01.5k1.4k11
12Feb 17, '25“Pax Americana is gone. Born with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S.-led international rules-based order died with the second inauguration of Donald 5.1×128k780331219
13Feb 6, '23.@AVindman argues that Washington should help Kyiv bring the war with Russia to a swift and decisive end—and explains how preparing to retake Crimea will create an opening for dipl4.6×115k1.2k24920
14Oct 6, '17How Spain's overreaction to the Catalan referendum legitimized the call for independence:4.0×07251.2k0
15Jan 4, '25“Putin has no interest in a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine,” writes @apolyakova. To bring about an end to the conflict, the incoming Trump administration must implemen4.0×100k78918327
16Mar 22, '25With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest power grab, which effectively removed his most formidable challenger from politics, Turkey has become a full, Russian-style aut3.9×98k59726190
17Feb 3, '23By helping Ukraine to prepare to retake Crimea, the West can force Putin to the negotiating table and create an opening for diplomatic talks, writes @AVindman.3.8×96k496803
18Apr 10, '23As the world’s democracies confront shared global challenges and a brewing fight against authoritarianism, Taiwan seeks to be—and in many ways already is—part of the solution, writ3.7×92k93518030
19Mar 19, '17Public support for the EU has increased by double digits in Germany, France, and Belgium following Brexit.3.6×08388590
20Apr 26, '20The latest arrests of senior figures in Hong Kong’s democracy movement send a chilling message, writes @jwassers. The agreement stipulating that Hong Kong would enjoy a “high degre3.5×09589153
21Apr 25, '20The latest arrests of senior figures in Hong Kong’s democracy movement send a chilling message, @jwassers writes. The agreement stipulating that Hong Kong would enjoy a “high degre3.5×09208901
22Oct 22, '17One million people could die on the first day of any preventive or preemptive war with North Korea.3.4×05779260
23Jan 25, '23The Biden administration seems to fear the chaos that could accompany a decisive Kremlin defeat—but rather than destabilizing Russia and its neighbors, a Ukrainian victory would bo3.4×85k85716821
24Jan 31, '23It is not the collapse of Putin’s regime that Washington should fear—but the regime’s continued survival, write @Kasparov63 and @mbk_center.3.4×85k96019610
25Aug 24, '22“The United States and other countries have pressed for a cessation of hostilities and sought to negotiate humanitarian access to Tigray, but they have largely ignored the horrors 3.3×072581611
26Jun 3, '16Learn about the past. Understand the present. Predict the future.3.2×09706660
27Oct 27, '17During Franco's early years of rule, the Spanish state inflicted what amounted to cultural genocide on Catalonia.3.1×07468560
28Feb 4, '23.@McFaul argues that the West must help Kyiv put more pressure on Moscow, including by making it more difficult for Russian companies to engage in financial transactions with the o3.1×78k7331586
29Jun 2, '21Nigeria’s international partners, especially the United States, must acknowledge that Nigeria is now a failed state, write @JohnCampbellcfr and Robert I. Rotberg.3.0×066982612
30Apr 28, '20“The arrest of nonviolent activists in Hong Kong is ominous, but unfortunately not unprecedented.”3.0×08007912
31Sep 13, '20Evidence of mass surveillance, arbitrary arrest, forced labor, detention camps, torture, and murder in Xinjiang has piled up, but China’s economic power has deterred many world lea3.0×07857965
32Dec 28, '23“Ukraine’s partners should move from a half-hearted to a full-throated offensive strategy that provides the embattled country with all the weapons necessary to gain the upper hand 3.0×75k4851418
33Apr 29, '20“The current pandemic has distracted international observers from Hong Kong’s struggle and left many local residents fearful of crowds. Chinese authorities know it.”2.9×07817711
34Feb 3, '24“Putin evidently still wishes to subjugate all of Ukraine, not occupy a portion of the country’s territory. The idea that Ukraine can trade land for peace and thus remain free on t2.9×73k72823428
35May 25, '24“Attacking the ICC shows that the United States supports global justice only when applied to its adversaries. And in doing so, it suggests that Washington’s commitment to the rule 2.9×73k63234770
36Jul 5, '20Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous region that respected the rule of law and protected human rights helped make the city a capital of international finance, writes Michael C. Davi2.8×07467342
37Mar 22, '20Under Xi, the Chinese political system is becoming ever more closed—making the service provided by the foreign press corps even more valuable. @JEPomfret discusses the implications2.8×07617202
38Jun 5, '23Read Fiona Hill on how the convergence of Russian and U.S. politics reached a peak under the Trump administration—and what U.S. policymakers today should be doing to reverse this t2.7×68k47220948
39Sep 10, '20“What has been Asia’s financial hub may find itself reduced to a twenty-first-century version of the fishing village that Queen Victoria’s subjects found when they sailed into the 2.7×07177077
40Apr 29, '23“If Russia wins and Ukraine falls, Central Europe may well be next.” @P_Fiala, @MorawieckiM, and @eduardheger—prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, respectiv2.7×68k76818911
41Oct 3, '20“What has happened in Hong Kong will affect not only its 7.5 million residents but also the entire region—and the rest of the world.”2.7×071869310
42Jun 27, '20“The pandemic appears to have increased Beijing’s sensitivity to questions of sovereignty, from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the East and South China Seas—and to the rugged Himalayan bo2.7×07237035
43Sep 14, '20In a review of two recent books, @JanePerlez considers what China’s crackdown on Hong Kong will mean for the city’s residents, for the region, and for the world:2.6×07076901
44Sep 8, '20In a review of “City on Fire” by Antony Dapiran and “Unfree Speech” by Joshua Wong with Jason Y. Ng, @JanePerlez discusses Beijing’s tightening grip on Hong Kong and the waves of p2.6×06927021
45Dec 29, '23It is time for Ukraine’s partners to part with their halfhearted strategy of support—and pivot to an offensive approach that provides Kyiv with the weapons necessary to gain the up2.6×66k99528417
46Apr 25, '20.@rosenbergerlm traces the progression of China’s coronavirus information campaign, from Beijing’s response to initial reports of an outbreak to its current strategy of sowing doub2.6×07156763
47Apr 22, '23“Putin still believes that time is on his side.” Russia's president expects that the West will gradually lose interest in helping Ukraine—and the United States and its partners mus2.6×66k55115913
48Apr 4, '20“If Xi continues on this trajectory, eroding the foundations of China’s economic and political power and monopolizing responsibility and control, he will expose the CCP to cataclys2.5×06806525
49Sep 11, '20In a review of two books on Hong Kong, @JanePerlez details Beijing’s takeover of the city and the protest movement that developed in response:2.5×06756623
50Jun 25, '19.@BernieSanders calls for an end to a U.S. foreign policy oriented around terrorism and endless wars:2.5×01.2k3099
51Feb 7, '23Putin has no interest in a fight with NATO, but that doesn’t mean that Moscow isn’t willing to play a dangerous game of chicken with the West—and the likelihood that this game will2.4×61k4711048
52Jan 18, '20When rising powers have suffered economic slowdowns in the past, they became more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. China seems to be headed down just such a path, arg2.4×06656382
53Mar 21, '20Under Xi, the Chinese political system is becoming ever more closed—making the service provided by the foreign press corps even more valuable. @JEPomfret discusses the implications2.4×06406382
54Jun 6, '20The White House’s indignation over the new national security law in Hong Kong is certainly justified, writes Kurt Tong. But there are better ways to defend Hong Kong than the appro2.4×06496353
55Sep 11, '20For now, China’s economic power allows it to repress Muslim Uighurs at home while building partnerships with Muslim nations abroad. But growing awareness of the atrocities in Xinji2.4×06506396
56May 6, '25“Most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation.” @ngumenyuk explains why Ukrainians are likely to stay committed to the war, 2.4×60k82534171
57Jul 4, '20China never fully carried out its commitment to the democratic reform needed to sustain Hong Kong’s wavering autonomy, writes Michael C. Davis. Now, it has brought Hong Kong fully 2.4×06366295
58Jun 17, '20Beijing has long understood that harnessing information can be a means of exercising geopolitical power, @rosenbergerlm writes. And as the novel coronavirus spreads around the glob2.3×06096171
59Feb 8, '20China’s need for democratization is endogenous, argues Jiwei Ci. Reform has created a largely democratic society without a complementary democratic polity, and the mismatch will ev2.3×06336026
60May 17, '24“Ukraine’s campaign to destroy Russia’s oil refining capacity is putting exactly the kind of pressure on Moscow that the U.S.-led sanctions regime was designed for but has had limi2.3×58k94322837
61Mar 8, '22The Ukrainian military will run short on weapons long before its manpower is exhausted or morale breaks, write @AVindman and @DomCruzBus. But the West has the resources to ensure t2.3×01.2k3136
62Sep 27, '20Today, China’s economic power allows it to repress Muslim Uighurs at home while building partnerships with Muslim nations abroad. But growing awareness of the atrocities in Xinjian2.3×05826085
63May 23, '22Washington can and should do more to ensure a Ukrainian victory, writes @AVindman. First, it must abandon the hope for a stable relationship with Russia—and discard the desire to s2.2×01.2k26217
64Oct 3, '20In a review of two recent books on Hong Kong, @JanePerlez details Beijing’s takeover of the city and the protest movement that developed in response:2.2×05775804
65Feb 17, '25“The United States has begun to move closer to Russia, as populism, cronyism, and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy,” wrote Fiona Hill in a 2021 essay.2.2×55k586303104
66Sep 10, '20In a review of two new books on Hong Kong, @JanePerlez details Beijing’s takeover of the city and the protest movement that developed in response:2.2×05785645
67Apr 28, '20When reports of the novel coronavirus surfaced in December, Beijing at first focused on suppressing them. Now, as the virus spreads around the globe, China’s information campaign h2.2×05705656
68Mar 23, '20“Taiwan has developed one of the world’s most vibrant political cultures by making technology work to democracy’s advantage rather than detriment. This culture of civic technology 2.2×090832731
69Nov 1, '18We've dropped our paywall for the next three and a half weeks, so now is the time to read up on the issues shaping today's world. Particularly for those who are new to our website,2.1×073439643
70Jan 10, '21“Those who failed to foresee the risks of the United States’ current crisis weren’t paying enough attention to Trump’s actual words.”2.1×01.1k23014
71Jul 10, '20“Beijing’s recent actions in Hong Kong—and elsewhere in Asia—raise worrying questions about its evolving objectives and increasing willingness to use coercive tactics to achieve th2.1×05805281
72Oct 19, '21U.S. policymakers failed to contain the rapid rise of China. Now, they confront a competitor that may be even more powerful than the Soviet Union at the peak of the Cold War, argue2.1×0564220122
73Jan 19, '20China’s economy is stalling, writes Michael Beckley, and this makes the country more dangerous than ever. Washington will have to deter China’s aggression, assuage its insecurities2.1×05645531
74Nov 7, '20“Beijing has acted with a sense of impunity in its northwestern province, but its abuses there could bedevil its foreign relations with the Muslim world in the years to come.”2.1×05765285
75Feb 1, '21López Obrador’s nationalistic, enclosed, and less globalized vision of Mexico threatens to derail much of what has been accomplished in the last two decades, and Washington should 2.0×060522930
76Aug 18Our September/October 2026 issue is now available online. Start reading here:2.0×50k886720
77Jun 26, '19“We need to rethink the militaristic approach that has undermined the United States’ moral authority, caused allies to question our ability to lead, drained our tax coffers, and co2.0×09692631
78Feb 22, '22“India is the only big power that can draw on decades of friendship to pressure Moscow. That means New Delhi is uniquely positioned not just to shore up its own geopolitical positi2.0×062014054
79Feb 8, '23Ukrainians will fight with or without new advanced weapons, with or without harsher sanctions, and with or without money to help them run their country—and the West should help the1.9×48k5801003
80Dec 30, '17Americans have reached a point where ignorance—at least regarding what is generally considered established knowledge in public policy—is seen as an actual virtue.1.9×04874291
81Sep 26, '20Today, China’s economic power allows it to repress Muslim Uighurs at home while building partnerships with Muslim nations abroad. But growing awareness of the atrocities in Xinjian1.8×05354652
82Mar 13, '25“Most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation.” @ngumenyuk explains why Ukrainians are likely to stay committed to the war, 1.8×45k85028380
83Feb 6, '23.@AVindman argues that Washington should give Ukraine the weapons and assistance it needs to credibly threaten to take Crimea by force—and consequently force Putin to the negotiati1.8×44k494704
84May 13, '22The risk that a Ukrainian victory would lead to dangerous Russian retaliation is overblown, writes @AVindman. The risks of a Russian victory are far greater—and would entail irreve1.8×092121814
85Sep 27, '21Fiona Hill, who served as a senior foreign policy adviser to President Trump, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the administration’s approach to relations with Moscow.1.7×066726057
86Apr 27, '22If Finland and Sweden join NATO, they will bring substantial defense capabilities that will alter the security architecture of northern Europe and help deter further Russian aggres1.7×098616620
87Nov 30, '22“Resistance to Russia—and rejection of the kinds of distasteful compromises that might bring the war to a swift end—should also be understood as evidence of the abiding power of id1.7×096415723
88Mar 14, '25“Most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation.” @ngumenyuk explains why Ukrainians are likely to stay committed to the war, 1.6×41k67123867
89Jun 21, '20“When he departs the White House, Trump will have left the United States bereft of friends and admirers beyond its borders, save for a menagerie of unsavory characters who share th1.6×060326325
90May 27, '17Over 50 years of Zbigniew Brzezinski's writing for Foreign Affairs, gathered into one place:1.5×05173182
91May 31, '25“In nearly every industry, the United States’ most transformative innovations over the last eight decades depended on government funding, because the government was the most patien1.5×38k65033164
92Nov 30, '20Trump’s foreign policy has damaged the United States’ ability to address problems before they reach U.S. territory, compounding the danger emergent threats pose, write former Secre1.4×058419535
93Sep 28, '21“​​The fire was already burning; all Putin had to do was pour on some gasoline.” Read Fiona Hill on how President Trump’s approach to politics helped Moscow exploit divisions in th1.4×056320535
94Oct 18, '22A new nuclear deal with Iran would contradict President Biden’s forceful condemnation of the regime’s crackdown on protesters—and fund the same authorities who are brutally attacki1.3×05392137
95Nov 8, '20“The Biden foreign policy agenda will place the United States back at the head of the table, in a position to work with its allies and partners to mobilize collective action on glo1.3×060311926
96Nov 14, '22“The GOP is no longer a party based on ideas or policies but something more akin to a cult.”1.2×063813714
97Nov 19, '21Fiona Hill writes on how the convergence of Russian and U.S. politics reached a peak under the Trump administration—and what U.S. policymakers today should be doing to reverse this1.2×048717328
98May 11, '22Despite doubts in Washington that Kyiv can secure a victory, Ukraine is capable of beating Russia in this war, writes @AVindman. The United States must give Ukraine the support it 1.0×0600999
99Jul 23, '19To counter Chinese threats to U.S. vital interests, @NikkiHaley writes, it is necessary to think creatively and courageously—and without any illusions about our adversary’s intenti1.0×05551093
100Mar 16, '25“Most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation.” @ngumenyuk explains why Ukrainians are likely to stay committed to the war, 1.0×25k63524446
101Nov 11, '23A new survey conducted by @ArabBarometer’s @AmaneyJamal and @mdhrobbins shortly before Hamas’s October 7 attack indicated that Gazans desire political change—and that, by and large0.5×12k30176

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