Tag: geopolitics

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, then-Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned that the war and its outcome would be a harbinger of Asia’s future. His message was ...

The power to control access to money is no longer the exclusive privilege of the sovereign. Increasingly, the rules governing how money is created, moves, and is held are enforced ...

Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Russia would face “severe consequences” if it didn’t agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine? When he threatened to impose draconian sanctions if ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is personally undertaking a flurry of diplomatic moves to try to find a path to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. After hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, fresh off his Alaska meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, seems to have cooled on the idea of pressuring Moscow to end the war ...

No matter how the war in Ukraine ends, one thing is clear: Europe is entering a period of massive investment in defense infrastructure. Facing the reality that they will have ...

In a 1912 story, British satirist H.H. Munro—better known by his pen name, Saki—imagines a “small, obtrusive, self-important” Austrian diplomat sitting under a decaying double-headed eagle at his favorite café ...

West Asia stands at a perilous inflection point. The horrors unfolding in Gaza, the recent aggression directed at Iran but repelled by the Iranian people and its armed forces, and ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at growing Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, and a U.S. crackdown on Mexico’s cartels. Burying ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces down multiple challenges at once as the United States threatens high tariffs, former Bangladeshi ...