Foreign Affairs

A new stage in Russia's confrontation with Ukraine—and the West.

A diplomatic strategy to end the war.

The real barriers to competitiveness and innovation are still in place.

How shock therapy threatens the post-Assad peace.

In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called artificial intelligence “far more dangerous than nukes.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who assigns The Making of the Atomic Bomb to employees and has likened himself to the Manhattan Project scientist Leo Szilard, describes the most powerful AI models as “weaponizable nuclear materials.” When asked how a technology such as AI can be regulated, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman often references the world’s nuclear materials watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, has made the same comparison.

The Trump-Xi summit gives Washington a chance to buy time.

The next secretary-general must get back to basics

Congo’s warning for the global health system.

The U.S. military needs to build up its endurance.

A unique discipline system has helped the party endure.

The country is collapsing even as its regime survives.

The delusions of summitry and the limits of personalist diplomacy.

How Beijing will weaponize digital chokepoints.

Trump has already undermined NATO and allied deterrence.

Pressure and pain won’t sap Russia’s resolve in Ukraine.

Slow and steady wins the negotiation.

The Houthis’ bold advance has transformed the Middle East’s wars.

9/11 and the unraveling of American democracy.

Can Moscow adjust its foreign policy for a changing world?

American businesses need more foreign capital and know-how.