Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief happy to be here. 2023 has been a difficult and turbulent year for African nations facing severe debt, global inflation, and extreme weather events.…
The scale and sophistication of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks have led many counterterrorism analysts to revisit their assumptions about the group’s intent and capabilities. And one of the…
Listening to U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks to campaign supporters last week, one might be forgiven for believing that he had finally had it with his “good friend” Benjamin Netanyahu…
World Brief is back with the latest on U.S. efforts to quell the Israel-Hamas conflict, North Korea’s missile tests, and a national security law trial in Hong Kong. Correction: In…
Not long ago, the world was focused on a U.S.-Saudi-Israeli “big Middle East deal.” However, the current situation of death and destruction is far from the excitement around potential Saudi-Israeli…
The complete article was about Karen Pierce, the British Ambassador to the United States. She is the first woman to take up the role, and has been serving the position…
The 2023 U.N. climate summit, known as COP28, ended last week in Dubai after overtime negotiations dragged out the signing of the final agreement. Since then, policymakers, analysts, and activists…
When Russia began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it used neighboring Belarus as a staging ground for the assault on Kyiv. In response, the United States and…
As it approaches its bicentennial, the Monroe Doctrine is making a comeback in the United States political debates. It asserts that America will oppose foreign incursions in the Western Hemisphere…
The stylish host of the annual G-20 summit in New Delhi in September, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reliant on creating a leaders’ summit for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue…