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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

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

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The Age of Uneasy Peace

Chinese Power in a Divided World

Yan Xuetong

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Where U.S. Foreign Policy Should—and Shouldn’t—Go From Here

Jake Sullivan

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America’s Long Goodbye

The Real Crisis of the Trump Era

Eliot A. Cohen

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The Crisis of Peacekeeping

Why the UN Can’t End Wars

Séverine Autesserre

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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

The spoils of trade: imported frozen seafood in Vernon, California, September 2018.

The Free-Trade Paradox

The Bad Politics of a Good Idea

Alan S. Blinder

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A crane unloads containers from a ship at the port city of Massawa, Eritrea, July 2018.

Red Sea Rivalries

The Gulf States Are Playing a Dangerous Game in the Horn of Africa

Zach Vertin

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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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The Trouble With the “Working Hypothesis”

What Conservatives Get Wrong About Labor Markets

James K. Galbraith

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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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The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

Three Crises Washington Could Face in 2019

Nicholas L. Miller and Vipin Narang

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Jan 20, 1981

U.S. Hostages in Iran Released

In 1979, a group of young Iranian revolutionaries storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 Americans hostage. After 444 days, U.S. hostages are released from Iran.

Gaddis Smith

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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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Withdrawing From Syria Leaves a Vacuum That Iran Will Fill

Shiite Militias Are in the Region to Stay

Colin P. Clarke and Ariane M. Tabatabai

Warnings From Versailles

The Lessons of 1919, a Hundred Years On

Margaret MacMillan

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

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How the State Is Co-Opting Religion in China

And What It Means for the Country’s Future

Ian Johnson

Life After Liberation

The Long Shadow of Eastern Europe’s Communist Past

Timothy Garton Ash

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Customers at a Xiaomi product launch in Shenzhen, China, May 2018.

The Real History of Intellectual Piracy

What China Can Learn From America

B. Zorina Khan

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The Age of Uneasy Peace

More, Less, or Different?

America’s Long Goodbye

The Crisis of Peacekeeping

The Latest

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

The Free-Trade Paradox

Red Sea Rivalries

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 Trouble With the “Working Hypothesis”

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

Editor's Pick

Foreign Affairs Reading Lists

Why Iran Waits

Turkey’s Bid for Religious Leadership

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

This Day in History

U.S. Hostages in Iran Released

When Empires End

Withdrawing From Syria Leaves a Vacuum That Iran Will Fill

Warnings From Versailles

Book Reviews

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Reviewed by Jake Sullivan

How the State Is Co-Opting Religion in China

Life After Liberation

The Real History of Intellectual Piracy