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FP’s Fall 2025 Print Magazine: The End of Development
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What does the future look like for global aid, NGOs, and development diplomacy? Which new approaches in international development should the world move toward? Eight authors tackle these topics in FP’s latest print issue, available to read now: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine...
Ignoring the local roots of the MAGA moment in search of a foreign analogy makes it harder to see the dangers of the current crisis.
Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Ignoring the local roots of the MAGA moment in search of a foreign analogy makes it harder to see the dangers of the current crisis.
While the U.S. government’s recent actions have posed the biggest and most unexpected challenge for foreign aid groups, the reality is that the heyday of NGO influence was already long over.
Why the World Turned on NGOs
From powerbrokers in the ’90s to pariahs today.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
While the U.S. government’s recent actions have posed the biggest and most unexpected challenge for foreign aid groups, the reality is that the heyday of NGO influence was already long over.
Ramachandra Guha compares the rises, reigns, and philosophies of the strongmen leaders defining the 21st century.
Ranking the Strongmen
In an era defined by vanity, the U.S. president outdoes all his populist peers.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ramachandra Guha compares the rises, reigns, and philosophies of the strongmen leaders defining the 21st century.
How countries invest is, increasingly, how they compete.
The New Wealth of Nations
How instrumental capital is reshaping the world.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How countries invest is, increasingly, how they compete.
If you are job searching in the new year, these tips from a seasoned international relations expert might help you land your first gig.
So You Want to Work in International Affairs
A veteran practitioner’s 12 tips to land that first job.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you are job searching in the new year, these tips from a seasoned international relations expert might help you land your first gig.
After decades of Americans trying to tell other countries’ citizens how to fix their governments, it may be time to turn the tables.
Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
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December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
After decades of Americans trying to tell other countries’ citizens how to fix their governments, it may be time to turn the tables.
The more Trump proclaims “America First,” the more Europeans stampede away from the wreckage of the alliance, writes Edward Lucas. Every step in that direction creates more clout for Europe and less leverage for the United States.
America Will Miss Europe’s Dependence When It’s Gone
European self-reliance for security will cost U.S. jobs, profits, and influence.
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December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The more Trump proclaims “America First,” the more Europeans stampede away from the wreckage of the alliance, writes Edward Lucas. Every step in that direction creates more clout for Europe and less leverage for the United States.
Trump’s return has only accelerated a move toward a more transactional global system.
Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
Countries and companies with clout might thrive. The rest, not so much.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump’s return has only accelerated a move toward a more transactional global system.
Here are the people most prominently shaping—and communicating—Trump’s foreign policy.
The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0
As the second Trump administration approaches the one-year mark, here’s who is influencing key policies.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here are the people most prominently shaping—and communicating—Trump’s foreign policy.
In the end, Trump’s historical reputation will depend on results, not the lengths he is willing to go to be remembered.
How Trump Will Be Remembered
No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In the end, Trump’s historical reputation will depend on results, not the lengths he is willing to go to be remembered.
Columnist Emma Ashford outlines four explanatory models worth considering to explain the second Trump administration’s foreign-policy choices so far.
Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change—not inertia—in U.S. foreign policy.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Columnist Emma Ashford outlines four explanatory models worth considering to explain the second Trump administration’s foreign-policy choices so far.
As the country struggles to shake off the long economic hangover of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping seems more than willing to wait.
China’s Year of Patience
The trends that defined Beijing’s 2025, from the trade war with Trump to challenges on the home front.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
As the country struggles to shake off the long economic hangover of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping seems more than willing to wait.
Once again, the United States is losing focus at a time when Iran’s internal politics are poised to undergo major changes.
Misreading Iran
Scott Anderson’s “King of Kings” offers a timely picture of U.S. myopia and miscalculation in Tehran.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Once again, the United States is losing focus at a time when Iran’s internal politics are poised to undergo major changes.
Here are the new and noteworthy words that defined geopolitics in 2025.
New Geopolitical Words We Learned in 2025
When it’s TACO time, no one wants to be a persistent objector.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Here are the new and noteworthy words that defined geopolitics in 2025.
In its harsh honesty and tender attentiveness to the humanity of those doing the fighting, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” is a masterpiece of bitterness and brutality, writes Christian Caryl.
A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows actual battle in startling clarity.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In its harsh honesty and tender attentiveness to the humanity of those doing the fighting, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” is a masterpiece of bitterness and brutality, writes Christian Caryl.
“The Secret Agent,” the latest feature by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, offers up a series of canny observations on life under, and after, authoritarianism.
A Raucous Reckoning With Brazil’s Dictatorship
“The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s Oscars hopeful, probes an undigested history.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“The Secret Agent,” the latest feature by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, offers up a series of canny observations on life under, and after, authoritarianism.
In 2025, FP contributors leaned on their unique areas of expertise to weigh in on the buzziest books of the year. Here are their favorites:
The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year
Our favorite books—and reviews—of 2025.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In 2025, FP contributors leaned on their unique areas of expertise to weigh in on the buzziest books of the year. Here are their favorites:
The latest installment in James Cameron’s cultural juggernaut reflects a sad realism about current affairs, writes film critic Jordan Hoffman.
Why Is the New ‘Avatar’ Film So Bloodthirsty?
The latest installment in James Cameron’s cultural juggernaut reflects a sad realism about current affairs.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The latest installment in James Cameron’s cultural juggernaut reflects a sad realism about current affairs, writes film critic Jordan Hoffman.
World Brief: Denmark condemns the new U.S. special envoy to Greenland, a car bomb kills a senior Russian military official, and Israel approves the construction of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/t...
Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Are Far From Over
The White House signals its aims by appointing a special envoy to the territory.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
World Brief: Denmark condemns the new U.S. special envoy to Greenland, a car bomb kills a senior Russian military official, and Israel approves the construction of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/t...
The award-winning director’s political outspokenness and global visibility have long brought him into conflict with the Iranian government.
Jafar Panahi Has His Eyes on the Future
Iran’s most celebrated director asks what a world after the Islamic Republic might look like.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The award-winning director’s political outspokenness and global visibility have long brought him into conflict with the Iranian government.
Instead of a genuine end to conflict, Trump’s specialty is a Potemkin peace plan—a symbolic “agreement” proclaimed with great fanfare that soon collapses, writes columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.
Trump’s Fake Peace Deals Are Dangerous
Potemkin peace can be a threat all its own.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Instead of a genuine end to conflict, Trump’s specialty is a Potemkin peace plan—a symbolic “agreement” proclaimed with great fanfare that soon collapses, writes columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.
FP staff writers take a look at the key individuals driving the Trump administration's foreign policy.
The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0
As the second Trump administration approaches the one-year mark, here’s who is influencing key policies.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
FP staff writers take a look at the key individuals driving the Trump administration's foreign policy.
The publication of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy has forced Europe to confront its potential geopolitical isolation.
Europe Looks Beyond the United States
From Ukraine to South America, the EU is forging its own path.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The publication of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy has forced Europe to confront its potential geopolitical isolation.
Air pollution causes an estimated 2 million premature deaths annually in the region.
Air Pollution Is Choking South Asia
Smog is crossing borders and wrecking lives.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Air pollution causes an estimated 2 million premature deaths annually in the region.
There are few existing agreements in history that could serve as a model for a possible buffer zone in the Donbas.
There's No Precedent for Ukraine's Proposed Peace Deal
History doesn’t suggest a demilitarized zone in eastern Ukraine would work.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There are few existing agreements in history that could serve as a model for a possible buffer zone in the Donbas.