In ‘Strong Roots,’ Russia’s Invasions Can’t Kill Ukrainian Cooking
Why do Russians do the things they do? Why, specifically, do they commit atrocities and reject democracy? It’s…
What Zubok’s History Reveals About U.S.-Russia Relations Today
The Cold War is historically anomalous. It was awkwardly long, with no clear origin or conclusion. It was…
How the U.S. Should Withdraw From Europe’s Defense
Ten years from now, the United States should have no significant troop presence in Europe. Realists are in…
How the Museum Shaped France
Few museums embody a country’s history, values, and role in the world as much as the Louvre does…
Trump Wants to Acquire New Territory. History Tells Us It’s a Bad Idea.
In December 1899, John Barrett, a former minister to Siam (today Thailand) who had spent months accompanying the…
How the Agency Fueled the Polish Underground
One August day in 1951, a giant fleet of balloons sailed into Czechoslovakia. It must have been a…
Non-Western History Shows Why the End of U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of a Multipolar World Need Not Mean Chaos
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating…
AUKUS Review Leads to Questions on Australia’s Defense Strategy
The U.S. Defense Department’s announcement of a review of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) pact in June sent…
The Biggest Foreign-Policy Books of Summer 2025
At Foreign Policy, summer isn’t just about beach reads (though we’re fond of those, too). It’s also a…
The Fate of the World’s Forgotten Wars Is Seen in Chechnya
The world’s attention was, for a while, on Ukraine. Then it shifted on a dime to Gaza. Now…