Foreign Policy in Focus

The United States will have to choose between its addiction to military spending and the economic demands of its population.

But it’s also united on a false linkage between Russia and Hamas.

America can’t determine outcomes on the ground in Israel and Ukraine.

It’s in the long-term self-interest of the U.S. to stop coddling the dangerous authoritarian government of India.

In its war in Ukraine, Russia is trying to protect a few pawns even as it puts its powerful queen at risk.

The world has one last shot at reducing global inequality and saving the planet.

What can you do when you’ve run out of options at the local and national levels?

How can activists in the north and south work together to ensure a global just transiti

Pity the country that has no armistice, but pity the country that needs an armistice.

Peace activists should be clamoring for a peace on Ukrainian terms. Since Ukraine is the victim in this conflict, it should ideally decide the timing and the parameters of any peace deal.

With its strategy of bomb and blockade, Russia is literally taking the food out of the mouths of the hungry.

The war in Ukraine is not just about territory. It’s about the future of global governance.

According to the Supreme Court, America’s not back but backwards.

The White House’s embrace of the Indian leader is normalizing fascism in the world’s most populous country — and in the U.S. as well.

The failed coup by the Wagner Group has exposed the Russian president’s fatal weaknesses.

African leaders visited Russia and Ukraine. The U.S. secretary of state visited China. Is détente making a comeback?

Europe and the United States have to stop competing and start cooperating to avert climate catastrophe.

Wealthy countries are angling for access to the resources of poorer countries to power a “clean energy” transition. But this transition is about so much more than that.

The war has cost lives and destroyed the Ukrainian economy. But it has also been a major environmental hazard.

Hint: rationing is a better approach than markets.