Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesPolitics USMCA Chances in Congress Narrow as Clock Winds Downforeignpolicy.com - Keith Johnson Ironically, the fight over impeachment could finally ease the way for NAFTA’s successor. But time is running out. With the impeachment inquiry gaining …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesChile Chile's Protests Continue Unabatedforeignpolicy.com - Elizabeth Miles After more than a week of protests in Chile, President Sebastián Piñera made a televised apology Tuesday night, saying his government and several …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesSyria Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan Agree to Carve Up Kurdish-Held Syriaforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman During a six-hour meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesArgentinaAhead of Argentina’s Elections, Politicians on the Left and Right Are Ready to Tackle the Country’s Economic Problems byforeignpolicy.com - Catherine Osborn Two weeks before Argentina’s upcoming general elections, a squad of female congressional candidates addressed a euphoric crowd that had traveled from …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesHKMA As Protests Continue, Will China Replace Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam?foreignpolicy.com - James Palmer Welcome to Foreign Policy’s weekly China Brief. The highlights this week: Beijing considers removing Hong Kong’s leader to replace her with a chosen …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesChina China Routs the United States at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationforeignpolicy.com - Colum Lynch In mid-January, Kevin Moley, the senior State Department official responsible for overseeing U.S. relations with the United Nations and other …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesRecep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdogan Has No Clue What His Syria Strategy Isforeignpolicy.com - Steven A. Cook The Turkish president’s war will likely fail because he doesn’t know what he wants. In contrast to the profound confusion in Washington over the past …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesSouth China Sea 'Abominable' Highlights Hollywood's China Problemforeignpolicy.com - Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Hollywood’s China reckoning has come. But unlike the NBA’s recent China debacle, this time it’s not the United States but China’s nearest neighbors …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top StoriesHealth Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel Prize Is a Cautionary Tale for Economicsforeignpolicy.com - Sanjay G. Reddy When I was a graduate student of economics in the early to mid-1990s, a new idea was just starting to emerge in the field of global development: …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top Stories Protests in Lebanon and Iraq Show That Iran Is Losing the Middle East Through Bad Governanceforeignpolicy.com - Hanin Ghaddar In less than a month, demonstrations against corruption and a lack of economic reform erupted in both Iraq and Lebanon. In both countries, the …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest Stories EU Leaders Consider Brexit Extension After Another Defeat in Parliament for Boris Johnsonforeignpolicy.com - Audrey Wilson Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: The European Union could issue another Brexit extension, Turkey and Russia reach a deal over Syria, and why Hungary …
Foreign Policyflipped into The ArchiveKurdistan The Kurds Are Not Childrenforeignpolicy.com - Bernard-Henri Lévy The timidity of the international community in the face of the Sept. 25 referendum on an independent Kurdistan is a trifecta of shame, absurdity, and …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesUkraine Hungary's Spat With Ukraine Set the Stage for Orban's Effort to Sour Trump on Kyivforeignpolicy.com - Amy Mackinnon Donald Trump has long viewed Ukraine as hopelessly corrupt—or at least that is the reason the U.S. president has reportedly given for his eagerness …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesIndia India Weighs Trade Action Against Malaysia After Kashmir Criticismforeignpolicy.com - Ravi Agrawal Welcome to Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: India weighs trade action against Malaysia, deadly explosions rock …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesPaul Krugman Economists on the Runforeignpolicy.com - Michael Hirsh Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesHong Kong Hong Kong's Crisis Still Has Answersforeignpolicy.com - Derek Grossman With the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China now past, the period of greatest danger is upon Hong Kong. Beijing, no …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesAfrica Africa's Civil Wars Are Not Domestic Issues. They Are Really International Contests for Power.foreignpolicy.com - Alex de Waal This month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the bold steps he took last year to make peace with …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesPolitics Fighting Continues Between SDF and Turkey in Northern Syria as Both Sides Claim Territoryforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman Clashes between Syrian Kurdish fighters and Turkish-backed forces continued across northern Syria this week despite a U.S.-brokered pause in the …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesIndia Not Everyone Can Vote in Indian Electionsforeignpolicy.com - Soumya Shankar MUMBAI—Maroof Azam, a 24-year-old mechanic, dropped his tools to accost a man who was passing by his store. The person in question was a volunteer …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesWestern Canada Canada's Election Night Is Half a Win for Trudeauforeignpolicy.com - Justin Ling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proved himself an unbelievably resilient politician. At the end of the race, which ran just over a month …
Foreign Policyflipped into NewsU.S. Dept. of Defense U.S. Plan to Protect Kurdish-Held Syrian Oil Fields Sows Confusionforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday confirmed that President Donald Trump’s administration is considering maintaining a small force of U.S. troops …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top StoriesMaxime Bernier Canada’s Nationalist Gets a Polite Refusalforeignpolicy.com - Justin Ling The international club of nationalist politicians is big, diverse, and still growing. Matteo Salvini, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen, Jimmie Akesson, …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesTurkey As Turkish Cease-Fire in Syria Expires, Erdogan and Putin Meet in Russiaforeignpolicy.com - Audrey Wilson Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: The Turkish and Russian leaders meet as Turkey’s cease-fire in northern Syria is set to expire, workers join …
Foreign Policyflipped into Analysis Chinese Surveillance Grows Beyond Xinjiangforeignpolicy.com - Emile Dirks One evening in the summer of 2017, local police in China made a surprise inspection of a small private language school, checking the visas of all …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top StoriesHuawei Merkel Chooses Huawei Over U.S. and EU Objectionsforeignpolicy.com - Janka Oertel Berlin’s refusal to shut Huawei out of its 5G networks weakens Europe’s prospects of standing up to Beijing. Over U.S. and European Union objections, …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest StoriesAKP Turkey’s Crackdown on Kurdish Mayors Could Backfireforeignpolicy.com - Umar Farooq In the run-up to Turkey’s ongoing operation against Kurdish nationalist forces in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top StoriesPolitics Tolkien's Lessons for Trumpforeignpolicy.com - Austin Gilkeson The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has been in a state of crisis almost since the moment he took the oath of office. The revolving …
Foreign Policyflipped into Latest Stories In Lebanon, Pan-Sectarian Protests Are Raging as Forest Fires Burnforeignpolicy.com - Firas Maksad For the people of Lebanon, struggling under the weight of an ever-growing economic crisis, endemic corruption, and rising social economic crises, it …
Foreign Policyflipped into The ArchiveSyria Syria Is the Foreign-Policy Debate That the 2020 Campaign Neededforeignpolicy.com - James Traub The Fire in Syria Is Shedding Light on the United States There’s only one positive aspect to the disaster in Syria: It’s forcing an overdue …
Foreign Policyflipped into Top StoriesBashar al-Assad Assad Is Now Syria’s Best-Case Scenarioforeignpolicy.com - Stephen M. Walt President Donald Trump is taking considerable flak for his impulsive decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria. He deserves it because it …
