Americas

Washington has signaled that it wants the international body to focus on preserving peace, but it could be looking to rubber-stamp its bilateral priorities.

A globe carved up by strongmen isn’t any world order at all.

How will America’s favorite cuisine fare in Trump’s cartel fight?

Market realities will stymie Trump’s talking points.

The Republican Party’s anti-intellectualism dates back even further.

The meeting caps weeks of tense relations between Kyiv and Washington as they wrangle a deal.

The Trump-Zelensky shouting match is a reminder that international diplomacy was never meant to be carried out in front of billions of eyes.

Eighty years on, the focus on the atomic bombs overlooks the impact of the Tokyo air raid.

Picking fights about maps is for geopolitical losers.

Trump has been trying to strong-arm Ukraine for years, but it’s not getting any prettier.

Kenneth Roth on why there’s a backlash against progressivism—and how to defend civil liberties.

In times of Middle Eastern turmoil, policy commitments matter more than messaging.

Washington has long criticized the region for its relations with Moscow. Now what?

Partisan intervention in any of the region’s many elections this year could threaten decades of democratic gains.

Strong civic engagement and low inequality have helped the country avoid the political polarization sweeping the globe.

The president’s demand that the Taliban return U.S. weaponry shows he is looking for new leverage.

What do Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine have in common? Critical minerals.

Sanctions are sticky, the Russian economy is dodgy, and almost all it sells is oil. Where is the upside?

Washington is rapidly destroying its international goodwill while Moscow and Beijing cheer along.

The shock approach causes amusement and concern in Beijing.

Americans should stop treating attacks on their neighbor as a joke.

Why Trump’s mineral deal with Ukraine is a losing proposition.

America’s first post-literate president has only geography to fall back on.

Cuts at USAID and the State Department undermine the ability to build markets for AI.

Cutting edge systems need to be developed in tandem.

Donald Trump has picked up where Reagan and both Bushes left off.

Why hasn’t the messianic urge for “efficiency” hit the tech industry?

That question has taken center stage in the German election.

The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.

Why the schoolyard tactic doesn’t make sense as a foreign-policy strategy.

Why global resistance movements have failed and where they go from here.

As Vance chastises European leaders and Trump echoes Russian talking points, fears are growing on the continent.

The former Brazilian president, a Trump ally, could face years in prison over a scheme to overturn the country’s 2022 election.

The prospect of an agreement looks increasingly uncertain.

Trump thinks he can follow in Nixon’s footsteps.

After J.D. Vance’s bizarre speech, a word synonymous with appeasement may now signal the voluntary surrender of global hegemony.

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on the U.S. vice president’s now-infamous Munich speech—among other things.

Trump wants broader powers, but U.S. businesses could suffer.

As U.S. and Russian officials begin negotiating an end to the Ukraine war without them.

Beijing won’t say so in public, but it sees new geopolitical opportunities.

Brussels has slavishly followed Washington for too long—and forgotten how to advance its own geopolitical interests.

The payments that it processes amount to a quarter of U.S. GDP.

A key Arctic initiative may be a way to mend relations.

Nixon tried what Trump is planning—and it caused a constitutional crisis.

A guide to the history and future of U.S. protectionism.

Map projections may be key to understand a presidential obsession.

The crisis is the latest setback for the Latin American left.

Jerry Cohen has spent a lifetime trying to understand the People’s Republic.

Foreign Policy’s guide to the global state of (televised) romance.

Trump’s actions are a distraction from the main order of business: the pursuit of fantastic profit through a surging industry.

Trump’s absurd Kennedy Center takeover is a dangerous step.

The U.S. president isn’t attending the Munich Security Conference himself, but he’s poised to dominate the conversation nonetheless.

A shared security challenge is a chance for the alliance to shine.

Former U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Laura Richardson says she’s “hopeful” but warns against a “blanket stop” on aid to the region.

Kyiv may have the critical minerals, but that’s just one part of the equation.

Spending cuts in Washington are creating openings for repressive regimes.

The economic own goals are bad. The strategic backfires are worse.

The answer might be linked to race and colonization, explains author Pankaj Mishra, speaking on FP Live.

It’s not unprecedented for a powerful country to simply shoot itself in the foot.

The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.

Washington’s focus on development assistance and democracy promotion has failed. Relationships based on commercial engagement are the answer.

Beijing stands to lose indirect access to the U.S. market, but it will be hard to dent its heavy industry.

Closing the littlest loophole proved to have big consequences.

Trump’s assault on immigrants and charity has no friend in the Vatican.

Fiscal discipline is easy to promise and hard to stick to.

Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle the federal bureaucracy is the latest in a string of efforts by both parties.

On Sunday, will the country embrace President Daniel Noboa’s hard-line approach or vote for fresh solutions?

China is fighting back, but other countries will struggle to respond.

A new book provides insight into the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions.

It’s not the first time that liberal capitalism has retreated—and predatory capitalists have filled the void.

The two leaders’ bonhomie will continue if the Indian prime minister makes accommodations on trade and illegal immigration.

Another wild week in Washington calls into question long-standing U.S. alliances and policies.

Claudia Sheinbaum emerged victorious from the week’s tariff tussle, but her assumptions about the United States are shaken.

Declaring a national emergency to exact concessions is a ploy to seize authority.

Steve Witkoff’s lack of diplomatic experience is his greatest strength—and potentially his fatal weakness.

The U.S. president’s ambitions for “reciprocity” aren’t limited to China.

He isn’t the first U.S. president to try to establish one, but the initiative faces several obstacles.

The administration aimed to outcompete China. Four years later, here’s how it measured up.

The U.S. president’s designs on Gaza and other territories mirror China’s failed wolf warrior diplomacy.

The U.S. president signed a memo directing agencies to enforce existing sanctions on the country, but his statements suggest he’s open to talks.

On FP Live, three experts on three continents try to find the signal in the noise.

DeepSeek has exposed just how uncertain future AI energy demand is.

Experts warn that dissolving the agency would be a gift to U.S. adversaries.

Trump should revive the “Star Wars” missile defense plans of the 1980s to protect against growing threats from Russia, China, and North Korea.

Seizing the Palestinian territory would involve U.S. war crimes and utter regional chaos.

There is a long history of affronts against the country’s sovereignty.

Hint: It has to do with tomatoes.

Beijing has ended up the sole target of new U.S. tariffs—so far.

President Joe Biden handed off a country that was in its strongest geopolitical position in decades.

Similar attempts to combine development and diplomacy worldwide have had mixed results.

The State Department isn’t ready to handle vital disease-prevention efforts worldwide.

Washington faces a daunting but critical task.

An academic assessment of the U.S. president’s foreign-policy revolution.

Just look at the president’s embrace of fossil fuels.

His wealth, political power, and support for far-right parties are setting off alarm bells.

Netanyahu should lower expectations ahead of his meeting with Trump.

Fighting with China won’t bring jobs home.

Countries will retaliate as much as they’re willing to hurt themselves—or make a point.

Programs in violence prevention, refugee services, and forest protection are in jeopardy.

The U.S. president wants to end the war in Ukraine. Does Russia?