Foreign Policy

A murdering militia still depends on international legitimacy to survive.

Trump’s testing plans revive scrutiny of Beijing’s growing arsenal.

Under Rapid Support Forces control, civilians face summary execution, sexual violence, and famine, experts say.

Why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.

Brazil’s people-centered climate vision risks abandoning the most vulnerable.

A vague statement opens a range of expensive possibilities.

A top China scholar and former Biden administration advisor on the Trump-Xi meeting and the future of the U.S.-China relationship.

As a more technical body, the task force might be able to fill the gap left by Security Council paralysis.

The storm’s devastation is a key test of the United States’ reduced humanitarian response abilities.

Anti-war candidate Catherine Connolly’s victory is the country’s latest rebuke to the global right-wing populist wave.

“I am Ukrainian, right? I’m not a Democrat or Republican.”

The former U.S. vice president set out to strengthen the power of the presidency and the country but ultimately undermined both.

For a while, it looked as if China had learned its lesson on scaling back investments.

Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime.

Samia Suluhu Hassan begins her second term after vote-rigging allegations and deadly protests rocked the country.

The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.

COP30 in Brazil tests the 2015 climate accord at a pivotal moment.

U.S. and EU penalties on Russian oil companies raise the stakes for New Delhi’s trade talks with Washington.

East Asian countries are using a tried-and-true method to woo the U.S. president and secure better trade deals.

Decades of accumulated technical debt have hollowed out state capacity.