Why World Leaders Are Descending on ASEAN
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: ASEAN’s summit makes Kuala Lumpur a geopolitical hub, Laos considers cutting power to crypto miners, a royal baby is ...
Tag: geopolitics
Can India Continue to Rise Without Its Region?
There has been an eerie similarity to recent developments in South Asia. The Generation Z-led protest movement that ousted Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in Nepal in September echoes the ...
7 Books That Reveal How Kremlin Decision-Makers Think
What prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine? Is it part of a wider war with the West—whatever “West” means these days? And how does Russia fight this conflict? ...
Welcome to the Era of Mutually Assured Disruption
The tenuous trade truce between Washington and Beijing has collapsed. What lies ahead is less a conventional trade war and more of a sustained struggle in which both powers codify ...
Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Obsession Isn’t Over
Another year, another failed attempt. U.S. President Donald Trump’s inability to secure this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was predictable. The odds that he will ever win the prize remain slim. ...
The World After Oct. 7
Exactly two years ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas crossed into Israel and killed around 1,200 people. It was an awful, inhumane attack. But that day also triggered a chain ...
From Moldova to Africa, Russia’s Power Is Waning
On Sept. 28, Moldovan voters overwhelmingly rejected pro-Russian parties and gave President Maia Sandu’s pro-European party a decisive parliamentary majority. The victory, which came despite a massive Russia-financed influence operation ...
The TikTok Deal Is America’s White Flag in the Tech War With China
On Sept. 25, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country while complying with national security concerns. After ...
India and the Rebalancing of Asia
One of the unanticipated features of Asia’s new geopolitics has been the return of India to center stage. During the colonial era, British India played a decisive role in shaping ...
Europe Is on Its Own With Russia Now
Has U.S. President Donald Trump finally seen the light? In a post on his Truth Social network on Sept. 23, he wrote: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the ...
