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@foreignaffairs.comAs Trump antagonizes Canada and Mexico, he risks “destroying a precious geopolitical asset: a strong continental base from which Washington projects power,” writes Robert Zoellick.
@foreignaffairs.com“The United States may think that it has cornered Iran,” write Narges Bajoghli and @valinasr.bsky.social. “But Tehran disagrees. It does not see itself as on its heels or out of options. Instead, it believes that it has won great-power status.”
@foreignaffairs.comWashington should lift its ban on economic spying, argues David Cohen. “The United States could reap crucial benefits from sharing foreign trade secrets with select tech firms.”
@foreignaffairs.comListen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Julianne Smith on the future of the war in Ukraine and what the transatlantic relationship might look like after Trump.
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@foreignaffairs.com“Ultimately, the Netanyahu government’s strategy has less to do with stabilizing Gaza or even disarming Hamas than with rendering the territory uninhabitable and ejecting its population,” writes @elgindy.bsky.social.
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@foreignaffairs.com“As long as each provocation costs Moscow nothing more than a downed drone, Putin has every reason to keep escalating,” writes Julianne Smith. How can NATO stop the Kremlin’s hybrid war in Europe?
@foreignaffairs.comNot all African countries will benefit from today’s investment boom—but those that attract sustained foreign capital “could see tremendous growth,” writes Jared Cohen.
@foreignaffairs.comTo avoid greater instability, leaders in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa urgently need to “recognize how interconnected their security dilemmas have become,” writes Alan Boswell.
@foreignaffairs.com“The notion of military victory is a dangerous myth,” write Stephen Biddle, @samwl.bsky.social, and Yuri Zhukov. “Terms and bargaining always matter: no war ends unless both sides choose to accept a settlement and stop.”
@foreignaffairs.com“State-backed propagandists do not have to choose between state media and fake accounts, or between covert personas and overt broadcasters,” write @noupside.bsky.social and @joshagoldstein.bsky.social. “They can use all of them together—and they are increasingly doing so.”
@foreignaffairs.com“The story of twenty-first-century China is not just one of demographic decline but also one of political paralysis—and what happens when those two intersect,” writes @carlminzner.bsky.social. “It is this combination that makes China’s future especially bleak.”
@foreignaffairs.com“Brazil is becoming the object of other countries’ security policies rather than the author of its own,” writes Matias Spektor. What explains Brazil’s waning influence?
@foreignaffairs.comAccording to a recent Arab Barometer survey, the majority of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank favor a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, write Michael Robbins, Amaney Jamal, and Mark Tessler. https://bit.ly/47BA3Pm
@foreignaffairs.com“This is AI’s promise to every autocratic ruler: the ability to maintain control without delegating tasks to unreliable humans,” write @seva.bsky.social and Bruce Schneier.
@foreignaffairs.comRead Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar on Iran’s new approach to the United States, which aims to make maintaining a U.S. presence in the Middle East “so painful that Washington has no choice but to withdraw most of its troops.”
@foreignaffairs.comListen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Kyle Chan and Helen Toner on how the AI competition is shaping the relationship between the United States and China.
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@perryworldhouse.bsky.socialReposted by @foreignaffairs.comCongrats to @joshschwartz.bsky.social of @cmu.edu, winner of the 2026 PWH–@foreignaffairs.com Emerging Scholars Policy Prize! 🏆
Read more: https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-insight/joshua-schwartz-of-carnegie-mellon-wins-2026-emerging-scholars-policy-prize/
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@foreignaffairs.comThe international maritime order is collapsing, and “states are already making moves to control” the oceans, writes @mikealbertus.bsky.social. “The future could see states duking it out to secure their share of the seas.”
