Foreign Policy in Focus

When you give everyone a chunk of change, does it really change their lives and their communities?

Why are we concerned about humiliating mass murderers?

In Patagonia, an Indigenous community’s fight against repressive mining interests mirrors struggles across the hemisphere.

Improving relations with China could lower inflation, isolate Vladimir Putin, and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

The war in Ukraine must end with a defeat of Putinism.

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

Neither the formerly non-aligned of Europe nor the currently non-aligned of the Global South are interested in furthering Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions.

Dealing with stalemates between Russia and Ukraine, environmentalists and climate change, and COVID and humanity.

Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.

Build Back Better is on the ropes. But other parts of a just transition are moving forward.

North Korea’s greatest liability is something that it currently views as an asset: its radical isolation.

Russia is acting like an abusive husband in this gendered conflict.

The West is focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Here’s why the rest of the world should care as well.

How is it possible that so many left voters in France are willing to choose a far-right candidate in the second round of the presidential elections?

Russia is increasingly becoming the Saudi Arabia of the north.

Nationalism and internationalism are conducting an uncivil war, and humanity is being tested like Job.

China is both reducing and altering the nature of its investments in African energy projects.

The victory of conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol in South Korea’s recent presidential election will push the country deeper into the U.S. embrace.

No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin.

Most of the leaders of the alt-right are scrambling to distance themselves from Vladimir Putin. It might be too late.