Foreign PolicyAbiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed's Nobel Prize Could Tilt Ethiopia's Electionforeignpolicy.com - Bronwyn Bruton Abiy Ahmed took up the reins of government in Ethiopia at a time of profound strife, and through a serious of deft political gestures, including the …
Foreign PolicySyria Syria Is the Foreign-Policy Debate That the 2020 Campaign Neededforeignpolicy.com - James Traub There’s only one positive aspect to the disaster in Syria: It’s forcing an overdue conversation about U.S. grand strategy. In Tuesday night’s …
Foreign PolicyIslamic State (ISIS) Turkish-Backed Free Syrian Army Is Deliberately Releasing ISIS Prisonersforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman As Turkey wages a violent campaign against Kurdish fighters and civilians across northeastern Syria, Turkish-backed proxy forces with ties to …
Foreign PolicyChina Trump’s U.S.-China Trade Deal Is Fictionalforeignpolicy.com - Christopher Balding Both the United States and China want a bargain. But they’re fooling themselves if they think it’s happening. On Friday afternoon, the United States …
Foreign PolicyBashar al-Assad The United States Still Needs a Syria Strategyforeignpolicy.com - Peter Juul Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump made a shock decision to not only withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria but also greenlight a Turkish …
Foreign PolicyAbiy Ahmed Nobel Peace Prize Winner Abiy Ahmed Is Turning Ethiopia Aroundforeignpolicy.com - Terrence Lyons Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Nobel Peace Prize indicates his critical role in building long-term peace in the war-torn Horn of Africa …
Foreign PolicyIslamic State (ISIS) With ISIS Prisoners' Fate in Syria in Doubt, Iraq Must Decide How to Punish Its Own Captivesforeignpolicy.com - Vera Mironova With Turkish strikes on northern Syria underway, fears about the potential release of Islamic State fighters held in makeshift prisons there have …
Foreign PolicyUnited States Impeachment Won't Fix Trumpforeignpolicy.com - Paul Musgrave For decades, the official verdict on the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon was that, as his successor Gerald Ford said on …
Foreign PolicyVenezuela Maduro's Stance on FARC and ELN Could Cause Conflict on the Colombia-Venezuela Borderforeignpolicy.com - José R. Cárdenas Maduro Is Playing a Dangerous Game on the Colombian Border The United States and its Latin American allies launched last month a renewed diplomatic …
Foreign PolicyHan Chinese China Took My Uighur Familyforeignpolicy.com - Nur Iman After more than a year of denial that they even existed, the Chinese Communist Party at last admitted, last fall, that it was holding people in camps …
Foreign PolicyUnited Kingdom Brexit Means Britain Needs a Constitutionforeignpolicy.com - Vernon Bogdanor It is commonly said that the United Kingdom has no constitution. Indeed, some have joked that the British constitution is not worth the paper it …
Foreign PolicyPoland Poland's Populist Party Keeps Winning Thanks to Its Welfare State Modelforeignpolicy.com - Slawomir Sierakowski Multiple studies have shown that the rise of populism is directly correlated with increased antagonism between provincial and metropolitan areas. …
Foreign PolicyBosnia & Herzegovina In Post-Balkan Wars Bosnia, Women Have No Justice and No Seatsforeignpolicy.com - Riada Asimovic Akyol Both men and women suffer the consequences of wars, but conflicts and humanitarian disasters around the world tend to disproportionately affect women …
Foreign PolicyChinese Communist Party Chinese TV Is All Military and Technologyforeignpolicy.com - Lauren Teixeira In the lead-up to this year’s National Day on Oct. 1, which marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China’s pop …
Foreign PolicyXi Jinping 5 Bad Things in China’s Future (and 3 Good Ones)foreignpolicy.com - Jude Blanchette Nearly seven years into the Xi Jinping administration, China is facing arguably the most restrictive domestic political environment since the …
Foreign PolicyHong Kong It Is Time for the United States to Stand Up to China in Hong Kongforeignpolicy.com - Elizabeth Warren Tweets aren’t enough. Washington must make clear that it expects Beijing to live up to its commitments—and it will respond when China does not. As the …
Foreign PolicyMuslim Brotherhood Alaa al-Aswany Believes in Democracy, Except When He Doesn’tforeignpolicy.com - Daanish Faruqi The famous Egyptian novelist is diving back into politics at a revolutionary moment, but hasn’t figured out what he’s fighting for. The conflagration …
Foreign PolicyXi Jinping Xi Jinping Is the Life and Soul of the Partyforeignpolicy.com - Richard McGregor To mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, much of the commentariat will naturally focus on Xi Jinping …
Foreign PolicyChinese Communist Party China’s Youth Are Trapped in the Cult of Nationalismforeignpolicy.com - Vicky Xiuzhong Xu In August, groups of Chinese patriots, ranging from dozens to thousands of people, held a string of rallies in the United States, Canada, Britain, …
Foreign PolicyChinese Communist Party China’s Vast History Can’t Be Caught in the CCP’s Netforeignpolicy.com - Jeannette Ng China, the Orientalists said, was ancient, unchanging, and unchangeable. That’s a view long dropped by scholars. But it’s one that survives in the …
Foreign PolicyRonald Reagan John Bolton Is Ready to Go Rogueforeignpolicy.com - John Gans A difficult relationship that wasn’t working finally ends. A war of words over just who got fired and who quit clouds the final departure. An …
Foreign PolicyPeople's Party of Canada How Canadian Politics Got So Dumbforeignpolicy.com - Jonathan Kay With most of the big issues settled, politicians have turned to fighting hashtag wars. Here’s why that’s dangerous. By now, most readers will have …
Foreign PolicyRepublic of China The People’s Republic of China Was Born in Chainsforeignpolicy.com - Frank Dikötter On Oct. 1, 2019, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, an event referred …
Foreign PolicyMacedonia Refighting the Balkan Wars Won’t Lead to a Seat at the Table in Brusselsforeignpolicy.com - Bojan Stojkovski Historical feuds between Balkan nations are rarely solved once and for all. In most cases, the concerned countries either come up with temporary …
Foreign PolicyU.S. Central Command Arms Sales Can’t Replace U.S. Engagement in the Gulfforeignpolicy.com - Bilal Y. Saab According to a recent survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a solid majority of the American public feels less safe because of U.S. arms …
Foreign PolicySouth Africa South Africans Are Used to Being the Targets of Racist Hatred. Now They’ve Become the Haters.foreignpolicy.com - Eusebius McKaiser In the wake of the most recent wave of anti-immigrant violence, hundreds of foreign nationals want to leave South Africa, and some have already been …
Foreign PolicyUrsula von der Leyen The EU’s Compromise President May Have Just Conceded Too Much to Eastern Europeforeignpolicy.com - Susi Dennison Billed as a safe pair of hands, Ursula von der Leyen is about to find out that caution can only take her so far. Earlier this year, when Ursula von …
Foreign PolicyModi Western Accolades Are Egging Autocrats Onforeignpolicy.com - Azad Essa On Sept. 2, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it was honoring India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his efforts to build …
Foreign Policy Former Mattis Aide at Center of Dispute Over Pentagon Transparencyforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman The U.S. Defense Department approved a manuscript written by former Defense Secretary James Mattis’s onetime speechwriter with “minor redactions” on …
