Even after a mandate election, just one chamber of Congress can be sufficient to check a new president’s agenda. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/03/con…

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stepped down on Wednesday following the resignations of several other members of the cabinet amid a wide-ranging reshuffle of the Ukrainian government, FP’s Amy Mackinnon and Jack Detsch report. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/zel…

Widely divergent views on the ends and means of security policy would inevitably produce a series of watered-down compromises, Jakub Grygiel writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/02/eu-…

Pakistan’s ill-fated gas pipeline project with Iran has become emblematic of Pakistan’s geopolitical and economic struggles, and it shows how they get in the way of the country’s national interests. This week for ⁦Foreign Policy⁩: foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/ira…

To this day, Yalta generates heated discussion about just what was agreed—or to put it more accurately, what the three protagonists thought they were agreeing to, writes Phillips P. OBrien foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/01/roo…

Starting now on Foreign Policy: a 45-minute discussion with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns. We'll discuss U.S.-China relations, Taiwan, fentanyl, chips, climate change, and much else. WATCH: foreignpolicy.com/live/burns-chi…

Now live: Nicholas Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to China, joins FP Live to discuss the complicated state of the U.S.-China relationship. Watch the interview here: foreignpolicy.com/live/burns-chi… Ambassador Nicholas Burns

To the future U.S. president: “You come to Southeast Asia and ask us to choose between you and China, invoking the image of the both of you locked in great-power competition. We have already said we will not choose,” Danny Quah writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/dan…

The current war plunged the Gaza Sunbirds into chaos, @jonathanrashad writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/02/gaz…

On FP Live, Ambassador Nicholas Burns Nicholas Burns shares how he views the current state of the U.S.-China relationship: "We now have connectivity with Chinese leadership. That may sound ordinary, but it's actually quite extraordinary." Watch the full interview here: foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/05/us-…

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The long record of Russian and Soviet occupations does not bode well for negotiations. foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/31/rus…

This week in SitRep, Jack Detsch & I take a look at the White House's puzzling optimism over the prospects of a Gaza cease-fire & hostage deal. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/05/the…

To make sense of what Ukraine has accomplished and may still achieve with the Kursk offensive, it helps to go back in time to the medieval and early modern eras, Lucian Staiano-Daniels writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/01/ukr…

The three-year imprisonment of a Saudi human rights activist in Bulgaria highlights the broken asylum system on the EU’s periphery. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/al-…

Officials from approximately 50 African nations are in Beijing for a China-Africa summit—the first such gathering since the expansion of the BRICS bloc last year. Read this week’s Africa Brief: foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/chi…

World Brief: French President Emmanuel Macron taps Michel Barnier to be the next prime minister, major Western powers sign the world’s first AI treaty, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledges major funding boosts for Africa. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/05/mac…

Jihadi groups once confined to the Sahel are spreading south and threatening all of coastal West Africa. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/gha…

Iran wants Pakistan to hold up its end of the deal on a much-delayed gas pipeline—but it doesn’t seem likely. Read this week’s South Asia Brief: foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/ira…

Maduro is narrowing the political space available for the opposition and using Venezuela’s institutions to legitimize his claims of victory. The United States must act now, P. Michael McKinley argues. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/04/ven…