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…