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The July/August 2017 issue of Foreign Affairs.

A loose confederation of conservative thinkers and politicians is developing a new strategy for reaching out to the American middle class. These reformers could save the Republican Party - if only they could win over their fellow conservatives.

Recent surveys conducted in Syria reveal that Islamist fighters are surprisingly supportive of democracy. Here's why.

A common reaction to the ongoing migrant crisis has been to blame Europe: how can the wealthy nations of western Europe allow such a tragedy?

The next US president will inherit a security environment in which the United States con-fronts mounting threats with increasingly constrained resources, diminished stature, and growing uncertainty both at home and abroad over its willingness to protect its friends and its interests. Revisionist powers in Europe, the western Pacific, and the Persian Gulf - three regions long considered by both Democratic and Republican administrations to be vital to US national security.

Racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate recently, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one. So for the March/April issue, we did a deep dive into racial issues in comparative and historical perspective.

Although the Chinese middle class has faulted Xi’s leadership for U.S. Chinese trade tensions, a severe escalation in the trade war could result in a sudden shift of blame to Washington.

The modern Middle East has rarely been tranquil, but it has never been this bad. Full-blown civil wars rage in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Nascent conflicts simmer in Egypt, South Sudan, and Turkey. Various forms of spillover from these civil wars threaten the stability of Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have risen to new heights, raising the specter of a regionwide religious war.

Trump’s presidency may push Australia away from the United States, or it may create a more ambitious Australia that contributes to a stable balance of power in Asia and the rest of the world. Which of those comes true will depend in large part on Australians themselves.

The impact of nuclear weapons on international affairs has been minor compared with the sums and words expended on them, but the costs resulting from the obsession with them have been huge.

Only five years ago, al Qaeda’s downfall appeared imminent. Its founder and leader was dead. A succession of key lieutenants had been eliminated. And the region was transformed by the Arab Spring. Civil protest, it seemed, had achieved what terrorism had manifestly failed to deliver - and al Qaeda was the biggest loser.

America’s status as the greatest and most influential nation on earth comes with certain inescapable realities.

Léon Blum and French anti-semitism.

The July/August 2019 Issue of Foreign Affairs.

In recent years, as public anxiety over growing inequality has intensified, policymakers and academics have started scrambling for some increasingly extreme solutions. The good news is that these and other radical solutions are also unnecessary. Over the last dozen years or so, one country - Brazil - has shown that there’s a far better, less provocative, and more market-friendly way to fight inequality.

Although history is not usually taught this way, one could argue that cities have played a more important role in shaping the world than empires.

For all of the liberal order’s success, its institutions have become disconnected from publics in the very countries that created them.

Indonesia’s new president talks to Foreign Affairs about his recent victory, his national agenda, and the threat of Islamic extremism.

In early June, Finns learned that a civilian had put in a bid for a property near a Finnish Defense Force test-shooting range in the town of Taipalsaari, located some 20 kilometers from the Russian border. At first, nothing seemed unusual about this; civilians often live near military shooting ranges. But there was one detail that triggered concern in the Finnish military and government: the prospective buyer was Russian.

Many have warned that even if a Iran accepts a nuclear deal, it will continue to develop nuclear weapons in secret. In reality, however, Iran simply doesn't have the capability to build the bomb without getting caught.