Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: A peace deal is signed in Senegal’s south, Ghana pursues reparations, and Nigeria pressures Britain on the return of Benin Bronzes. ...
A Chinese diplomat has criticized America, saying the U.S. “makes war” whereas China “makes everything else”. The comments were made by Zhang Meifang, the Consul General of China in Belfast, ...
“If you plant a garden and go away for six months, what have you got when you come back? Weeds. And any good gardener knows you have to clear the ...
Four months ago, Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 81 men in a single day. A number of those executed were convicted of charges such as “disrupting the ...
The operative word at last week’s NATO summit in Madrid was “more.” More members (Finland and Sweden), more readiness (a seven-fold increase in the size of NATO’s high-readiness force), more ...
I’m just back from vacation, and U.S. President Joe Biden is off to the Middle East. This struck me as an opportune time to assess the administration’s foreign-policy performance. I ...
Reports indicate that Washington is presenting the United Arab Emirates with a formal defense agreement containing U.S. security guarantees for Abu Dhabi. If true, it would be the first of ...
With rare exception, the Middle East has become a place where U.S. presidential ideas, especially big ones, go to die. Wisely recognizing this cruel reality, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration ...
Since Russia attacked Ukraine, unprovoked, on Feb. 24, the discourse surrounding the war that has emerged in the United States has created strange bedfellows. Although the majority of the American ...
The Biden administration failed to deter Russia from its second invasion of Ukraine. Like his predecessors in the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden went to great lengths to placate ...
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