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To make lone wolf attacks less likely and prepare for those that do occur, governments should keep them isolated, build strong relationships between Muslim communities and law enforcement, monitor social media, and discredit the ideology that lone wolves embrace.

Even if neither the United States nor China want a nuclear war, a future conventional conflict between the two countries could slide into a nuclear crisis more easily than we think. Policymakers on both sides must be aware of this eventuality as tensions rise. 

The Trump administration’s bureaucratic problems do not come from an insidious, undemocratic “deep state” but simply from the state—the large, complex hive of people and procedures that constitute the U.S. federal government.

Every month, nearly one million people flee their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters.

A debate over Egyptian foreign policy and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Korb argues that Iraqi politicians and American generals, rather than the Obama administration, are to blame for the bungled withdrawal from Iraq. Brennan Replies.

Faced with Trump’s unprecedented belligerence, Mexico has few good options. The country’s best bet for dealing with Trump? Go around him.

Trump has jangled nerves on both sides of the Atlantic. But for all the shouting, it is not at all clear yet whether he will have a major impact on U.S.–European relations.

The case for deterrence.

In the U.S. military, at least, the “pivot” to Asia has begun. By 2020, the navy and the air force plan to base 60 percent of their forces in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pentagon, meanwhile, is investing a growing share of its shrinking resources in new long-range bombers and nuclear-powered submarines designed to operate in high-threat environments.

As Moscow assumes an aggressive new posture toward NATO, Blackwell argues, Washington must keep tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Blechman replies.

Credit and debt are more than just rational material exchanges within a market economy. They are socially constructed and center on matters of hard moral judgments about character, equity, and “good conscience.”

The July/August 2017 issue of Foreign Affairs.

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.