The Crumbling Nuclear Order | Foreign Affairs
WEB5 days ago · By Doreen Horschig and Heather Williams. September 16, 2024. An intercontinental ballistic missile launcher in Moscow, May 2024. Maxim Shipenkov / Reuters. The risk of nuclear war is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. The cause lies primarily with Russia’s ongoing nuclear threats and drills amid the conflict …
America and the Philippines Should Call China’s Bluff
WEB3 days ago · Washington, for its part, has welcomed Marcos’s foreign policy shift and his upholding of international law, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to settle maritime disputes. And U.S. officials have consistently expressed support for the Philippines and criticism of Beijing each time China harasses Philippine vessels.
The Case Against Israeli-Saudi Normalization | Foreign Affairs
WEB4 days ago · Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters. When President Joe Biden leaves office early next year, he will probably do so without having realized a signature item on his agenda for the Middle East—a diplomatic normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, sealed by a formal U.S. security guarantee to Riyadh. Yet this elusive agreement runs the risk of ...
Exiles Cannot Save Russia | Foreign Affairs
WEB3 days ago · September 18, 2024. Russian opposition leader Ilya Yashin in court on charges of spreading false information, Moscow, December 2022. Yuri Kochetkov / Reuters. In late 2022, a Moscow court sentenced the Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years behind bars. He was a prominent and outspoken member of the Russian …
The Case Against the China Consensus | Foreign Affairs
WEB5 days ago · The Biden administration, by contrast, has rightly invoked a sense of shared purpose, underlining the urgency of defending an international order in which might does not make right and working with governments of different persuasions to tackle problems that respect no borders or walls.. But in the broader U.S. public and policy conversation, …
What the World Can Learn From Switzerland, Taiwan, and Vietnam
WEB4 days ago · In-depth analysis delivered weekly. Yet as these major countries seem to be retreating from capitalism, there are a few places across the income curve, including Switzerland, Taiwan, and Vietnam, where capitalism still works—and their examples are worth emulating. Their governments value economic freedom, limiting their own role in …
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