Tag: geopolitics

As the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion nears, all eyes are on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. He has promised to “end the war” in Ukraine and begun negotiating with ...

The words of the year, chosen by the English-speaking universe’s custodians of the language, certainly describe the state of our world. Oxford University Press opted for “brain rot,” while Merriam-Webster ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Just a note that the newsletter will be taking the next two weeks off for the holidays. We’ll return on Jan. 9. Alright, ...

Dead soldiers, caked in blood and dirt, litter the ground. Their body armor has been torn off, and their guns lie strewn on the road. In the background, jihadis can ...

In the early hours of Dec. 8, the Assad dynasty’s more than half a century of brutal rule in Syria came to an end. With Bashar al-Assad fleeing the country, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the first actions of Syria’s transitional government, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol being investigated for insurrection, and Hungary’s efforts to mediate ...

Alice Guo won the 2022 mayoral elections in Bamban, a rural town in the Philippines with a population of around 78,000 people that’s sandwiched between several key military bases. The ...

When South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law on the evening of Dec. 3, shock reverberated through the halls of governments and think tanks in both Seoul and Washington. ...

The cataclysmic events of the last few weeks in Lebanon and Syria—from Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah to the fall of the Assad regime—have opened a new chapter for the Middle ...

The spectacularly rapid fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime is the Middle East’s 1989. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, this weekend’s end of 54 years of ...