Foreign Policy

As the United States under Trump alters its trajectory of the last several decades, the world faces an uncertain moment. FP’s Spring 2026 print issue, “The World After Trump” is an attempt to strain beyond the drumbeat of news and imagine where this new trajectory leads, editor in chief @RaviReports writes. Read all five essays here: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine/?…

It is precisely because the U.S. body politic has found no way of reining in Trump that we must hope that the current conflict with Iran can finally do so, argues columnist @hofrench. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/us-…

In “War and Power,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues that a more holistic approach to how military might is measured will improve our understanding of who wins wars and why. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/boo…

This new era will be a contest for the metabolic souls of the middle powers—the infrastructural and energy foundations on which their futures will be built. And unlike ideological allegiance, energy infrastructure is sticky—a situation that can be weaponized, Nils Gilman writes. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/cli…

World Brief: U.S. President Donald Trump claims that Washington is in talks with Tehran, several European countries hold crucial elections, and an attack on a Sudanese teaching hospital kills dozens of people. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/tru…

Sponsored: Is the United States in an AI arms race with China? And if so, who’s likely to win? Find out on a new episode of Strength in Numbers, a podcast from @UVA's National Security Data and Policy Institute: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who…

The trans-Atlantic dynamic is morphing into something new. Yet even as it has become increasingly clear that we are not returning to the post-Cold War status quo, too much of the debate around Europe continues to focus on how to limit the transition and fretting about worst-case scenarios, @EmmaMAshford writes. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/tra…

Middle powers are having a moment. But that moment has been long arriving, Sarang Shidore writes. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/mid…

Ten years hence, the world will look very different. What we don’t yet know is what awaits on the far side of our interregnum—what form that new world will take, @HalBrands writes for FP’s Spring 2026 print issue. The current moment feels precarious because each of three scenarios is plausible—and each finds support in the foreign policy of a conflicted superpower. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/pos…

Could middle powers fashion a countercoalition that enhances their autonomy, limits great-power excess, and rescues multilateralism? A closer reading reveals multiple barriers to such a coalition, which will take hard work to overcome, @globalsarang writes. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/mid…

Rather than aiming to run or remake the world, a foreign policy of abundance should make U.S. economic strength and broad-based prosperity its first order of business, banking that bounty and stability at home are prerequisites for the United States to thrive in the world, @SuzanneNossel writes. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/abu…

As the United States under Trump alters its trajectory of the last several decades, the world faces an uncertain moment. FP’s Spring 2026 print issue, “The World After Trump” is an attempt to strain beyond the drumbeat of news and imagine where this new trajectory leads, editor in chief @RaviReports writes. Read all five essays here: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine/?…

Starlink’s control over a critical communications layer gives it outsized geopolitical influence—especially in conflicts and emergencies. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/sta…

“The Museum of Innocence” captures the cultural mood of 1970s Turkey as liberatory politics gave way to self-serving capitalism, writes Kaya Genc. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/net…

Drug pricing debates are reshaping Europe's life sciences landscape, and its relationships to global partners. FP Analytics' synthesis report, supported by @AstraZeneca, examines what it will take to restore Europe's edge in pharmaceutical innovation: fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/15/eur…

Despite geographic constraints, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Africa are expanding their investment in winter sports. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/win…

Ukraine’s development of domestic missile technology is impressive. But Kyiv has a long way to go before it punches at Russia’s weight, writes Paul Hockenos. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/19/ukr…

Overthrowing a regime through external military force, and certainly by airpower alone, is unlikely to work and risks unleashing dangerous consequences, writes Dalia Dassa Kaye. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/no-…