How to Talk About China Without Talking About China
The first rule of great-power competition with China is you don’t talk about great-power competition with China. The first rule of great-power competition with China...
Holding Russia Accountable for War Crimes Is Harder Than It Looks
Ukraine and its Western allies are trying something that is largely without precedent in modern warfare: holding war criminals to account in a systematic way...
Ukraine Is Knock, Knock, Knocking on NATO’s Door
TALLINN, Estonia—One question dominates debates between American and European leaders, and it’s one that Ukraine views as existential. It is also, for now, unanswerable: When...
How the U.S. Fumbled Sudan’s Hopes for Democracy
In late October 2021, a top U.S. envoy met with Sudanese military commanders and Sudan’s top civilian leader to shore up the country’s precarious transition...
At Long Last, the Foreign Service Gets the Netflix Treatment
The first thing you need to know about the U.S. State Department, if you ever want to work there, is that most of your job...
Will South Korea Export Its Military Might to Ukraine?
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol signaled a possible shift in his country’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine, opening the door to potentially providing direct...
U.S. Readies New Sanctions on Warring Sudanese Forces
The Biden administration is readying plans to roll out new sanctions on members of rival military factions in Sudan, according to four current and former...
The U.S. and NATO Seek to Blunt Putin’s Black Sea Ambitions
The Black Sea, to borrow a line from Arlington Stringham*, has always produced more history than it can consume locally, and since Russia’s invasion of...
The Finnish Art of Sauna Diplomacy
A key part of a foreign-policy reporter’s job is to attend networking events to hobnob with diplomats and policymakers and get a pulse on behind-the-scenes...
House Republicans Subpoena Blinken for Key Afghan Dissent Cable
A top Republican lawmaker issued a subpoena for U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to produce a sensitive government document related to the collapse of...