Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump and his allies around the world are still alive and kicking.

Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the UN climate talks. Not so fast.

The victory of Xiomara Castro in Honduras is a sign that region is ready to exit its lost decade.

At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?

We all think that climate change is somebody else’s problem. We have to be persuaded otherwise.

Europe is ahead of much of the world in combining decarbonization with an equitable shift to clean energy. And it’s still not enough.

Congressional paralysis, voter suppression, and widespread political polarization all suggest that American democracy is far from exemplary.

If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution?

A secretive World Bank tribunal lets multinational corporations sue governments over basic regulations. Mexico should lead a Latin American exodus.

South Korea has been a big winner in the game of globalization. But it has come at a price.

The cold war in the Taiwan Strait threatens to turn hot.

The wealthy rob governments of at least $200 billion a year in lost tax revenues. It’s time to force them to pay up.

This problem of rogue actors has long bedeviled the United Nations. But the rise of right-wing populists who insist on their sovereign right to do whatever they please poses an additional challenge to the international community.

The fact that India is well on its way to full-fledged authoritarianism hasn’t factored into the Biden administration’s approach to the “world’s largest democracy.”

More than 140 historians ranked past American presidents. If not for Trump, Bush’s ranking would have nosedived.

The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?

Trump didn’t just tie his successor’s hands. He handcuffed them to the throttle of a runaway train.

The 9/11 attacks were a surprise. The response wasn’t.

Julian Aguon’s ‘The Properties of Perpetual Light’ is a thoughtful meditation on how, to understand problems at the center of a colonial society, we have to look at the margins.

America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.