“We’re giving away pure gold,” Yuri Kostenko declared in 1994, “and getting back ore.” In the years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the West was cobbling together the ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Major shifts in Afghanistan and Bangladesh lead to unexpected diplomatic developments for India and Pakistan, India’s army chief announces that ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy goals, Lebanon’s presidential prospects, and the release of an Italian journalist in Iranian detention. For ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan makes an eleventh-hour trip to India, Pakistan’s government begins talks to resolve tensions with ...
The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dealt a crushing blow to Russia’s aspirations to great-power status. Due to its military overextension in Ukraine and intelligence failures prior to the ...
The City Council is set to pave the way for nearly 400 small city religious and private schools to receive millions in taxpayer dollars to add security guards as the ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: A top human rights organization changes its stance on intervention in Haiti, new details of the EU-Mercosur trade deal are ...
With another Trump administration incoming, the future of transatlantic cooperation is receiving fresh scrutiny—as is the U.S. security umbrella that has largely, if imperfectly, kept the peace in free Europe ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Another top Chinese military official faces a disciplinary case, European officials accuse the crew of a Chinese ship of sabotaging Baltic undersea ...
On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 17, an undersea cable connecting Sweden and Lithuania suddenly stopped working. Less than 24 hours later, the only cable connecting Finland and central Europe ...