Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the largest and most influential tech companies in the world, including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—and what their domination of the technology industry ...

Two of the world’s most strategic maritime chokepoints, the Suez Canal and the Bab el Mandeb Strait, are bordered by African shores. Attacks by the Houthis, the Yemeni rebel group, on commercial ...

For much of the past century, policymakers have treated the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as separate strategic regions divided by the Red Sea. That distinction is now evaporating. Wars on ...

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Saudi Arabia, including politics under Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi foreign policy, oil and energy politics, human rights issues, and more.

Military victory is an alluring idea. A short, violent campaign that defeats the enemy promises payoffs at a tolerable price. The Trump administration expected such an outcome in Iran in February 2026 ...

Beijing’s one-child policy, plus the same social forces that have dragged East Asian fertility to historic lows, have produced below-replacement birth rates for three decades in China—draining the ...

But as the SDA’s operations show, influence operations are increasingly interconnected and part of propaganda strategies that transcend traditional boundaries. Sophisticated states such as China, Iran ...

This hard-line stance appeals to the majority of Israelis, who do not think that Palestinians are interested in negotiations or diplomacy. Surveys have repeatedly shown that Israelis overwhelmingly ...

The United States began bombing Iran on February 28 with the goal of destroying the country’s nuclear program, its missile program, and even its government, only to fail spectacularly at each ...

AI appears to offer autocrats two ways to resolve this long-standing dilemma. First, it means they can now easily monitor and discipline their followers in real time. A change in a local official’s ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, the Taiwan Strait, the waterway that has long been a flashpoint between the two countries, has seemed ...

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their countries. Some observers have read this development ...