Illiberal, democratic, and rising: How a middle power is reshaping the world order.

The jailed politician still stirs national pride.

The jailed politician still stirs national pride.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won’t take power, but it capitalized on public discontent to deliver a rebuke to the establishment.

The president targeted three bureau officials who could provide key testimony in Mueller probe

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won’t take power, but it capitalized on public discontent to deliver a rebuke to the establishment.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won’t take power, but it capitalized on public discontent to deliver a rebuke to the establishment.

The country needs reconciliation. The next government will bring more political conflict.

The country needs reconciliation. The next government will bring more political conflict.

The ousted prime minister is challenging the taboos of Pakistani politics.

Imran Khan’s arrest is cycling the country through crisis yet again.

A hasty and extralegal restriction has been imposed by an increasingly tyrannical president.

New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.

Beijing is confident in the United States’ decline and unwilling to rock the boat.

Imran Khan’s arrest is cycling the country through crisis yet again.

The crisis spurred by the opposition leader’s arrest shows no signs of de-escalation.

Russia makes its own choices—however bad they are.

With alternative sources in place, Putin’s attempt at blackmailing Europe on energy has failed.

The nonaligned country has strong diplomatic traditions—and its president is a pro at building global coalitions.

The 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet.

The ousted prime minister is challenging the taboos of Pakistani politics.

The Oct. 7 attack was the culmination of a strategic shift to challenge the movement’s containment.

Foreign Policy’s five best reads on a city in chaos.

Chandrashekhar Azad has rebranded his marginalized caste identity as something to be proud of.

A hasty and extralegal restriction has been imposed by an increasingly tyrannical president.

Foreign Policy’s five best reads on a city in chaos.

It will take an all-out diplomatic blitz to block the director-general’s impending reelection.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the mess Donald Trump is leaving behind.

Even as right-wing forces took hold in many places around the world, grassroots democracy proved itself alive and well.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the mess Donald Trump is leaving behind.

Beijing’s long game would be much better served by the candidate’s policies and the divisions he would unleash.

Foreign Policy’s five best reads on a city in chaos.

Beijing’s influence within the organization means the results of a review into the origins of the coronavirus are likely to be delayed—and compromised.

Some Gen Z users did sympathize with cherry-picked parts of the letter, but the media also amplified what had been a minor blip.

In a new chapter for Afghanistan, women are particularly vulnerable.

The United States needs to formally acknowledge the scale of the atrocities.

The Republican gadfly—and former U.S. ambassador and national security advisor—warns that Trump 2.0 will be even worse and more chaotic than the original.

American millennials may resent their baby boomer elders for ruining the world, but generational politics in mainland China and Hong Kong are more complicated.

Foreign Policy’s five best reads on a city in chaos.

Australian institutions’ financial ties to China mean ditching values.

Protests against police brutality and systemic racism highlight what is seen as the United States’ accelerated decline.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

Pro-democracy activists plan to start 2020 with another massive march through Hong Kong.

The Arab moment has passed. Competition between non-Arab powers—Turkey, Iran, and Israel—will shape the region’s future.

The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.

International solidarity with Kyiv in the face of Russian aggression is admirable. Tigrayans brutalized by Ethiopia and Eritrea deserve the same.

After a confrontation with the royal motorcade, the government is cracking down.

The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.

An independent nation deserves a place on the global stage.

The U.N. human rights commissioner ended up whitewashing China’s atrocities.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

Tunisia’s controversial president is seeking to preserve the legacy of the Arab Spring by stamping out corruption and promoting decentralized democracy.

The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.

And a lot is riding on whether Washington can figure out which strategy Beijing has chosen.

Tunisia’s controversial president is seeking to preserve the legacy of the Arab Spring by stamping out corruption and promoting decentralized democracy.

The far-right Brazilian leader isn’t just another conservative populist. His propaganda campaign has taken a page straight from the Nazi playbook.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Islamabad’s relations with Beijing and Washington and how his country is dealing with deadly floods.

In their crass hunger for Chinese money, universities have become China’s fifth column in the West.

The world’s economic dynamism is shifting to the global south.

Four years of neglect, unilateralism, and failed diplomacy have left America’s alliances in tatters. It’s time to rebuild them.

The State Department offered a Finnish journalist an award for international women in courage. Then the award was revoked after her anti-Trump social media posts.

The Indian Navy has suddenly become the go-to security provider in the Indian Ocean—with big implications for both the U.S. and China.

Restart, a fringe Iranian dissident group, shows how conspiracy spreads—and what that means for U.S. politics.

The national security law is just the start of oppression.

The national security law is just the start of oppression.

The jailed opposition leader who challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin has died in a prison colony.

The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.

And a lot is riding on whether Washington can figure out which strategy Beijing has chosen.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

Understanding oppression requires layered histories of the city itself.

The president relied on a key legal advisor, but the strategy could backfire.

As Beijing cracks down, it turns to familiar tools of repression.