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A Fulani shepherd stands at the boundary of a farm watching over grazing cattle in Paiko, Nigeria, November 2018

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The Deadliest Conflict You’ve Never Heard of

Nigeria’s Cattle Herders and Farmers Wage a Resource War

Udo Jude Ilo, Ier Jonathan-Ichaver, and 'Yemi Adamolekun

The Scramble for Northeast Syria

What Will Happen Once the United States Pulls Out

Aaron Stein

Workers on an assembly line in Franklin Park, Illinois, January 2019.

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A Future That Works

Debating Labor in America

Oren Cass and James K. Galbraith

Trump boards Air Force One at Beale Air Force Base, California, November 2018.

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Trump Doesn’t Like Traveling. That’s Bad for Diplomacy.

The Importance of Presidential Jet-Setting

James H. Lebovic and Elizabeth N. Saunders

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A Foreign Policy for All

Strengthening Democracy—at Home and Abroad

Elizabeth Warren

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The Fourth Founding

The United States and the Liberal Order

Gideon Rose

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How Congress Can Take Back Foreign Policy

A Playbook for Capitol Hill

Brian McKeon and Caroline Tess

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Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics

Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron

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Globalization 4.0

A New Architecture for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Klaus Schwab

U.S. President Donald Trump, acting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton hold a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, July 2018.

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Is No Longer Unpredictable

Gone Are the Days of a Divided Administration

Thomas Wright

Supporters of Felix Tshisekedi react at party headquarters in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 10, 2019

Congo Kicks the Can Down the Road

How a Failed Election Could Lead to a Violent Uprising

Tatiana Carayannis and Herbert Weiss

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America’s Middle East Purgatory

The Case for Doing Less

Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes

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Is Major Realignment Taking Place in the Middle East?

Why Turkey Is Pivoting Toward Iran and Russia

Colin P. Clarke and Ariane M. Tabatabai

The Next Arab Uprising

The Collapse of Authoritarianism in the Middle East

Marwan Muasher

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Why Iran Waits

Staying in the Nuclear Deal Is Its Worst Option, Except for All the Others

Henry Rome

The New Arab Order

Power and Violence in Today's Middle East

Marc Lynch

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A man counts votes at the Independent National Electoral Commission, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 2019.

The Retreat of African Democracy

The Autocratic Threat Is Growing

Nic Cheeseman and Jeffrey Smith

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What Syria Stands to Lose

A View From Raqqa, Where Normal Was Hard-Won

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga sail in formation with 16 other ships during Keen Sword in the Philippine Sea, November 2018.

How the U.S. Can Step Up in the South China Sea

The Right Way to Push Back Against Beijing

Gregory Poling and Bonnie S. Glaser

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Madeleine Albright Sworn in as First Female U.S. Secretary of State

Secretary Albright will become known for her strong support for human rights and democracy, her support for NATO, and her role in U.S. humanitarian intervention in Kosovo.

Madeleine K. Albright

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The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics

Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron

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A ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army is seen at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, March 2016.

The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

Three Crises Washington Could Face in 2019

Nicholas L. Miller and Vipin Narang

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after their meeting in Ankara, December 2018.

Why Iran Waits

Staying in the Nuclear Deal Is Its Worst Option, Except for All the Others

Henry Rome

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Jake Sullivan reviews new books by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer criticizing U.S. foreign policy.

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Turkey’s Bid for Religious Leadership

How the AKP Uses Islamic Soft Power

Gonul Tol

U.S. troops patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, November 4, 2018.

If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia

Making the Best of a Bad Idea

Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas A. Heras

At His Majesty's service: King George VI inspecting Indian troops, 1940

When Empires End

The Last Days of British India

Maya Jasanoff

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The Fourth Founding

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Globalization 4.0

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Congo Kicks the Can Down the Road

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America’s Middle East Purgatory

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The Next Arab Uprising

Why Iran Waits

The New Arab Order

The Retreat of African Democracy

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The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

Why Iran Waits

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Turkey’s Bid for Religious Leadership

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Current Issue: January/February 2019

A Foreign Policy for All

The Fourth Founding

How Congress Can Take Back Foreign Policy

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Latest

Globalization 4.0

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is No Longer Unpredictable

Congo Kicks the Can Down the Road

Spotlight: Middle East

America’s Middle East Purgatory

Is Major Realignment Taking Place in the Middle East?

The Next Arab Uprising

Why Iran Waits

The New Arab Order

The Retreat of African Democracy

What Syria Stands to Lose

How the U.S. Can Step Up in the South China Sea

Editor's Pick

Foreign Affairs Reading Lists

The Free-Trade Paradox

Red Sea Rivalries

The Trouble With the “Working Hypothesis”

This Day in History

Madeleine Albright Sworn in as First Female U.S. Secretary of State

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

Why Iran Waits

Book Reviews

More, Less, or Different?

Reviewed by Jake Sullivan

Turkey’s Bid for Religious Leadership

If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia

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