How to Fix the Security Council
At the 80th United Nations General Assembly high-level debates last week, a host of global leaders called for a more effective and representative Security Council. In the words of Finnish ...
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India’s Biggest Problem Is Its Own Backyard
NEW DELHI—Back-to-back student-led uprisings in Bangladesh and Nepal have toppled governments there, signaling a generational shift in South Asian politics. From Colombo to Dhaka to Kathmandu, Generation Z is emerging ...
Taiwan’s Message to Trump and the U.N.: ‘We’re Not a Freeloader’
The last time Foreign Policy sat down with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, he was just months into his new role as the de facto Taiwanese ambassador to Washington—officially known as Taiwan’s ...
Trump Nominates Sergio Gor as U.S. Ambassador to India, Special Envoy for South and Central Asia
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has nominated Sergio Gor, currently serving as White House Director of Presidential Personnel, to become the next U.S. ambassador to India and special ...
How Trump’s Armenia-Azerbaijan deal gives US key ‘leverage’ over Russia
WASHINGTON — A Trump-brokered peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan represents a major breakthrough after decades of fighting between the neighboring nations — and offers the US “leverage” over Russia, ...
The Trump Trade Tracker
It’s not quite the “90 deals in 90 days” that Trump administration officials claimed were possible back in April, when U.S. President Donald Trump put a 90-day pause on the ...
Pharaohs, Maharajas, and the Making of a Multipolar World
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...
A Division of Labor Between Europe and Asia Won’t Work
This week it was reported that a senior Pentagon official ruffled his colleagues’ feathers by ordering controversial policy decisions, including cutting off aid to Ukraine, without White House approval. But, ...
Bring Back the Spirit of Bandung
In recent years, the Western public discussion has been full of laments over the collapse of the so-called rules-based international order established in the aftermath of World War II. Some ...
Tropical Futures Institute & Eastern Margins Dive Into Asia’s Digital Diaspora
Summary Tropical Futures Institute (TFI) and Eastern Margins collaborated on a special capsule collection drawing from Asian underground culture, diasporic identity, and tropical regions. The collection, described as “built for ...
