MONA YACOUBIAN is Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace. This ...

In April 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan delivered a critique of the neoliberal consensus that had served ...

It steadily degraded Hezbollah and Iran, judging that although both would maintain low-level conflict, neither wanted a ...

Indeed, China is rapidly developing and producing weapons systems designed to deter the United States and, if deterrence ...

On the morning of September 17, soldiers in a remote base in Puerto Jordán, Arauca, along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, ...

A close analysis of the leaked files suggests that although Russia is using new technological methods to disseminate ...

ANDREW P. MILLER is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of ...

The world Americans face today is more complicated—and dangerous—than it has been for decades. Yet there is a growing, and in many ways understandable, desire to turn inward—a sense that there is ...

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, security, and economic and social issues in the Middle East and the evolution of U.S. policy in the region.

But even though its effects on countries’ political systems and the extent to which it fosters democratic decay have been ...

To end the war soon and on terms favorable to Kyiv, Ukraine will need to go on the offensive once again in 2025. After the ...