Foreign PolicyUnited Nations Dems Grill Trump’s U.N. Nominee Over Ottawa Absencesforeignpolicy.com - Colum Lynch Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez came armed with a giant calendar mounted on poster board and spotted with red and white blocks. The red blocks marked …
Foreign PolicyAKP Turkish Democracy Is Still Aliveforeignpolicy.com - Murat Somer On June 23, somewhere between 8 and 9 million residents of Istanbul will go to the polls to elect their mayor—again. The leading contenders are Ekrem …
Foreign PolicyStephen Biegun North Korea Talks in ‘Holding Pattern’ Over Key Word, U.S. Envoy Saysforeignpolicy.com - Elias Groll A year after U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inked a historic nuclear agreement in Singapore, the two sides have …
Foreign PolicyBrexit Brexit Is for Boysforeignpolicy.com - Sarah Donilon Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and …
Foreign PolicyEuropean Union A New, Harsher Vision of the EU Takes Shapeforeignpolicy.com - Kimberly Dozier BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—Nationalists who mistrust the European Union and internationalists who still embrace its mission can find a common path forward …
Foreign PolicyConservative Party This Is No Way to Pick a Prime Ministerforeignpolicy.com - Stephen Paduano Britain's process for replacing Theresa May is hard-fought, high-stakes—and completely undemocratic. For the first time since Britain’s race for prime …
Foreign PolicyAustralian Federal Police Australia Is Undermining the Freedom of Its Pressforeignpolicy.com - C. August Elliott In early June, a police raid on the headquarters of Australia’s national broadcaster shined an unexpected spotlight on the state of press freedom in …
Foreign PolicyPalestinian Authority Don’t Dismiss the Bahrain Conference. It Can Help Palestinians.foreignpolicy.com - Dennis Ross What will happen with U.S. President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”? It’s a question everyone in Israel is asking these days: Some want to know …
Foreign PolicyKim Jong-un From Pariah to Pawnforeignpolicy.com - Katie Stallard-Blanchette During his first five years in power, Chinese President Xi Jinping met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un precisely zero times. His administration …
Foreign PolicyAbortion Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Killing Women, Report Saysforeignpolicy.com - Alia Dharssi Every month, Marta Royo visits health care clinics and mobile health brigades across Colombia. There, Profamilia, a nonprofit Royo runs, provides …
Foreign PolicyEgypt Egypt Doesn’t Matter Anymoreforeignpolicy.com - Steven A. Cook The death of Mohamed Morsi is the latest milestone along the country’s slide into terminal irrelevance. News broke earlier this week that Mohamed …
Foreign PolicyHong Kong Beijing Blames Foreigners When Hong Kongers Marchforeignpolicy.com - Hilton Yip As many as 2 million Hong Kongers marched in black on Sunday against a feared extradition bill, according to the protest’s organizers. That was more …
Foreign PolicyEmerald Isle The Emerald Isle Has Friends On Both Sides of the Aisleforeignpolicy.com - Daniel Mulhall Bipartisan support of Ireland in the United States is stronger than ever, Dublin’s ambassador writes. A recent commentary in Foreign Policy by Paul …
Foreign PolicyCarrie Lam China’s Grip on Hong Kongforeignpolicy.com - Audrey Wilson Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Hong Kong’s leader won’t step down, the United Nations releases a report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and …
Foreign PolicyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdogan Has Met His Matchforeignpolicy.com - Patrick Keddie Almost two weeks after Ekrem Imamoglu’s shock victory in Istanbul’s mayoral election in March, which he narrowly won by some 13,000 votes, the ruling …
Foreign PolicyIran-Iraq War Iran’s Carefully Coded Messageforeignpolicy.com - Micha’el Tanchum The recent strikes make clear that Iran’s enemies won’t be able to bypass it in the Persian Gulf. In mid-June, two oil tankers, the Front Altair and …
Foreign PolicyBoris Johnson Will Boris Be Britain’s ‘Last Conservative Prime Minister’?foreignpolicy.com - Owen Matthews LONDON—Perhaps the oddest thing about Boris Johnson’s ascension in the Conservative Party—and the overwhelming Tory support for his bid to become …
Foreign PolicyPatrick M. Shanahan Shanahan Out as Pentagon Chief as Reports Emerge of Family Disputesforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman In a tweet, Trump named Mark Esper, the secretary of the Army, as the new acting secretary of defense. Patrick Shanahan withdrew his nomination to …
Foreign PolicyAung San Suu Kyi Orban and Aung San Suu Kyi Gave in to Hate the Same Wayforeignpolicy.com - Azeem Ibrahim Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her pro-democracy activism and her resilience in advocating for the cause of democracy …
Foreign PolicyForeign Policy Trump’s Top Russia Aide to Departforeignpolicy.com - Robbie Gramer Fiona Hill will be replaced by the arms control expert Tim Morrison, signaling a possible shift toward nuclear talks. Fiona Hill, U.S. President …
Foreign PolicyPopulism The New Political Influencersforeignpolicy.com - Bruno Maçães The West’s understanding of globalization and interdependence is increasingly outdated. It imagines a global system in which Western countries …
Foreign PolicyIran-Iraq War The Islamic Republic of Recklessnessforeignpolicy.com - Afshon Ostovar You might not think high-risk aggression is in Iran’s national interest, but leaders in Tehran have long disagreed. Iran is the most likely culprit …
Foreign PolicySerbia Big Brother Comes to Belgradeforeignpolicy.com - Bojan Stojkovski BELGRADE, Serbia—In 2014, a young man was killed in a hit-and-run car accident in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. The perpetrator eventually …
Foreign PolicyMohamed Morsi Here Comes Borisforeignpolicy.com - Audrey Wilson Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: The race for Britain’s next prime minister continues, Egypt’s ex-President Mohamed Morsi dies in court, and Iran …
Foreign PolicyIran A Dangerous Game of Nuclear Brinkmanshipforeignpolicy.com - Keith Johnson By pledging to stockpile uranium and violate key parts of the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran is hoping to force Europe to take drastic action to keep the …
Foreign PolicyU.S. Central Command New Centcom Chief Walks Tightrope on Iranforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman Though he is just months into the job, the new commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, is already driving a push to reinvigorate …
Foreign PolicyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoU.S. Dept. of Defense New Centcom Chief Walks Tightrope on Iran as Trump Adds Troopsforeignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman Though he is just months into the job, the new commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, is already driving a push to reinvigorate …
Foreign PolicyChinese Communist Party China’s Outrage Culture Packs a Mean Punchforeignpolicy.com - Peter Blair Chinese social media was aflame with controversy last week. But it wasn’t about Hong Kong, where millions of people were protesting. It wasn’t even …
Foreign PolicyUnited States When Zombie Neoconservatives Attackforeignpolicy.com - Stephen M. Walt This might be disturbing news to some readers, but the New York Times columnist David Brooks is very unhappy with the American people. Why? Because …
