The Foreign Affairs Interview

Last week, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. Such document... more

In the last decade, American foreign policymakers have been forced to reckon with a shifti... more

In the last few years, artificial intelligence has become a central focus of geopolitical ... more

Members of the foreign policy world have talked a lot about great-power competition over t... more

Robert O’Brien served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. O’Bri... more

Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may have brought a respite in the ... more

If one thing can be said to characterize the first months of Donald Trump’s second term, i... more

With a cease-fire in place in Gaza after two years of war, Donald Trump has proclaimed the... more

The world has watched as a cease-fire has tentatively taken effect in Gaza. All the surviv... more

Ever since Russia started its war in Ukraine, assessments of its military power have vacil... more

When Xi Jinping took over the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he began a new chapter in C... more

In early September, around 20 Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace. NATO and Polish fo... more

In 2024, the U.S. government discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated a huge swath o... more

Donald Trump has been railing against the global economic order from the start of his poli... more

It has been almost two years since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the start of th... more

For decades, the United States has used its position at the center of global financial, co... more

During his second term, Donald Trump has railed against the United States’ closest allies.... more

In an episode released in January 2025, Senior Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke with the polit... more

In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell abou... more

In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, the scholar and former U.S. official Ashley J. Telli... more