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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an umbrella in one hand and waves with the other as she boards Air Force Two beneath a cloudy gray sky.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an umbrella in one hand and waves with the other as she boards Air Force Two beneath a cloudy gray sky.

How Harris Found Her Foreign-Policy Footing

A good vice president has to be the ultimate staffer.

Argument
Aaron Mannes
An illustration shows President Biden facing toward a spinning blurry globe
An illustration shows President Biden facing toward a spinning blurry globe

Biden’s Legacy Depends on What Happens Next

The U.S. president leaves behind an enviable list of accomplishments after one term. But Trump could destroy a lot of it.

Analysis
Michael Hirsh
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a conversation with Steve Harvey about the economy at the 100 Black Men of America, Inc., 38th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a conversation with Steve Harvey about the economy at the 100 Black Men of America, Inc., 38th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

How a Harris Administration Would Steer the Economy

The vice president’s influences stretch from Howard University to Silicon Valley.

Q&A
Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
A tight image of Joe Biden from the nose down shows him wearing a tie with Democratic Party donkeys.
A tight image of Joe Biden from the nose down shows him wearing a tie with Democratic Party donkeys.

Biden Is Passing the Torch

Democrats can make this a decisive moment in their own trajectory and that of U.S. democracy.

Analysis
Julian E. Zelizer

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Asia & the Pacific

Fourier's GR-1 humanoid robots are displayed during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
Fourier's GR-1 humanoid robots are displayed during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

Into the Minds of China’s Military AI Experts
Analysis
Sam Bresnick

Pakistan Is Trying to Ban Imran Khan’s Party. Will That Spark a Political Crisis?

Trump Is Giving Taiwan the Ukraine Treatment

Anti-Terrorism Laws Are Being Used Against Environmentalists

China

A building with the words "Chinese Imperial post Office" on it. Atop the image is a red stamp with Chinese characters and the words "Chinese Imperial Post One Dollar" in English.
A building with the words "Chinese Imperial post Office" on it. Atop the image is a red stamp with Chinese characters and the words "Chinese Imperial Post One Dollar" in English.

The Hidden History of China’s Post Office
Essay
Weipin Tsai

China’s Nuclear Taboo Isn’t as Strong as It Seems

China’s Third Plenum, Explained

Can NATO Really Cut Off China?

Middle East & Africa

A woman casts her ballot during the 2024 Rwandan general elections at a polling station in Kigali, on July 15.
A woman casts her ballot during the 2024 Rwandan general elections at a polling station in Kigali, on July 15.

Paul Kagame Isn’t Going Anywhere
Africa Brief
Nosmot Gbadamosi

Britain Needs a New Middle East Policy

It’s Time to Sideline Israel from International Sports

Will Pezeshkian’s Win Lead to a Thaw in U.S.-Iran Relations?

Europe

Tusk, Macron, and Scholz meet in Berlin
Tusk, Macron, and Scholz meet in Berlin

Who Will Fill Europe’s Leadership Vacuum?
Argument
Bart M. J. Szewczyk

Russian Oil Is Still Paying for Putin’s War

Britain’s Tories Need to Avoid Farage’s Siren Song

Stop Wasting Captured Spies

Americas

A person with a small dog stands in front of a blue pond, with snow-topped mountains and a bright blue sky in the background. The person is on a gravel surface surrounded by white fences, with light brown shrubs all around the area.
A person with a small dog stands in front of a blue pond, with snow-topped mountains and a bright blue sky in the background. The person is on a gravel surface surrounded by white fences, with light brown shrubs all around the area.

The Hidden Trade-Offs of Climate Policy
Argument
Seaver Wang, Ted Nordhaus

Venezuela’s Strongman Could Actually Lose

GOP Platform Jolts Latin America

What America Can Learn From an Attempted Assassination in Brazil

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Europe Alone

Nine thinkers on the continent’s future without America’s embrace.

Analysis
Mark Leonard, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Nathalie Tocci, Carl Bildt, Robin Niblett, Radoslaw Sikorski, Guntram Wolff, Bilahari Kausikan, Ivan Krastev, Stefan Theil

How Europe Could Fracture if Trump Returns

Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past.

Essay
Hal Brands

Introducing Foreign Policy’s Summer 2024 Issue
Editor's Note
Ravi Agrawal

An Atrevida Is Best Avoided
Decoder
Kitty Greenwald

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer waves as he arrives for the UEFA Euro 2024 final football match between Spain and England at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on July 14.

Can Starmer Fix Britain’s Economy Without Big Policy Changes?
Insider
Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair answers questions from journalists at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 14.
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair answers questions from journalists at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 14.

Is Canada Free-Riding on Defense?
Insider
Ravi Agrawal
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks in New York.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks in New York.

Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Two-Front War and the Fall of Netanyahu
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Alexandra Sharp

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An illustration shows symbols from the U.S. dollar acting as balloons as they lift George Washington from the dollar bill as he sits atop a globe throne.

Don’t Bet Against the Dollar

U.S. competitors are pushing the limits of autonomy within a dollar-based system, but there isn’t a real global alternative—and the world is far from an inflection point.

Essay
Jared Cohen
An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo.
An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo.

A New Multilateralism
Essay
Gordon Brown
An illustration shows piles of shipping containers and symbols of industry as protectionist islands in a sea.
An illustration shows piles of shipping containers and symbols of industry as protectionist islands in a sea.

America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
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Adam Posen
A photo illustration shows a crowd of people filling the face of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A photo illustration shows a crowd of people filling the face of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The New Idea of India
Essay
Ravi Agrawal
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How Primed for War Is China?
Essay
Michael Beckley, Hal Brands
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor.
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor.

No, the World Is Not Multipolar
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Jo Inge Bekkevold
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.

6 Swing States Will Decide the Future of Geopolitics
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Cliff Kupchan

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A ripped and warped section from the side of a plane rests in the foreground of a broad expanse of a grassy field against a cloudy sky.

How the West Misunderstood Moscow in Ukraine

Ten years ago, Russia’s first invasion failed to wake up a bamboozled West. The reasons are still relevant today.

Argument
Julia Kazdobina, Jakob Hedenskog, Andreas Umland
Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.
Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.

Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe

After 500 years, the tables have turned, with an incoherent Europe the object of rising Asia’s geopolitical ambitions.

Analysis
C. Raja Mohan
Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah observes track laying of the East Coast Rail Link in Kuantan, Malaysia on Dec. 11, 2023.
Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah observes track laying of the East Coast Rail Link in Kuantan, Malaysia on Dec. 11, 2023.

The Winners From U.S.-China Decoupling

From Malaysia to Mexico, some countries are gearing up to benefit from economic fragmentation.

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Agathe Demarais
Fighters from a coalition of Islamist forces stand on a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on March 29, 2015, in the Syrian city of Idlib.
Fighters from a coalition of Islamist forces stand on a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on March 29, 2015, in the Syrian city of Idlib.

Another Uprising Has Started in Syria

Years after the country’s civil war supposedly ended, Assad’s control is again coming apart.

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Charles Lister

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A protestor is seen outside the U.S. Capitol holding an American flag, surrounded by smoke.

America’s Democracy Was Never That Healthy

Since its founding, the country has been in a perpetual state of division.

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Nick Bryant
Tom Hulce as Mozart performing in front of a large crowd in a screen grab from a film.
Tom Hulce as Mozart performing in front of a large crowd in a screen grab from a film.

‘Amadeus,’ Back in Theaters, Is a Perfect Film
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Jordan Hoffman
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A grid of 12 book covers.

Foreign Policy’s Summer Reading List
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Dark clouds hang over the silhouetted skylnie of London.

In ‘Caledonian Road,’ the U.K. Is Living on Thin Ice
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Nicholas Lezard

Books

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The wind blows a plastic bag past the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing on Jan. 23, 2008.

The Olympics Have a Dirty History—Literally

But a green sports movement is pushing for change, eager to see if Paris will be different.

Excerpt
Madeleine Orr
Marchers, most of them women in heels, dresses, coats, and hats carry signs for the communist part as they walk down a street in New York.
Marchers, most of them women in heels, dresses, coats, and hats carry signs for the communist part as they walk down a street in New York.

The Contradictions of America’s Communist Party
Review
Casey Michel
The book cover for Ben and Me by Eric Weiner
The book cover for Ben and Me by Eric Weiner

What We Can Learn From America’s First Diplomat
Essay
Eric Weiner
At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China, Edward Wong, Viking, 464 pp., $32, June 2024
At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China, Edward Wong, Viking, 464 pp., $32, June 2024

Revisiting Chinese Empire
Review
Bethany Allen
Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, Joe Shute, Bloomsbury Publishing, 272 pp., $26, June 2024
Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, Joe Shute, Bloomsbury Publishing, 272 pp., $26, June 2024

Are Rats Actually That Bad?
Review
Bronwen Everill
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Belknap Press, 288 pp., $45, June 2023
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Belknap Press, 288 pp., $45, June 2023

How Big Is CCP Inc.?
Review
Bob Davis
The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, T. V. Paul, Oxford University Press, 263 pp., $29.99, May 2024.
The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, T. V. Paul, Oxford University Press, 263 pp., $29.99, May 2024.

Modi Still Has Great-Power Ambitions for India
Review
Sumit Ganguly

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A Ukrainian border guard in a camouflaged uniform faces a yellow and white Ukrzaliznytsia diesel train and a red Polish SKPL transport company train on two sets of railroad tracks in Rava-Ruska, Ukraine.

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A banner depicting the late President Ebrahim Raisi hangs above a gathering of women at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a conservative southern suburb of Tehran, during the funeral of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
A banner depicting the late President Ebrahim Raisi hangs above a gathering of women at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a conservative southern suburb of Tehran, during the funeral of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

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