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“For now, Syria’s new government has approval ratings that should make other world leaders envious.”

Read Salma Al-Shami and Michael Robbins on what a newly released Arab Barometer survey reveals about Syrian public opinion: https://fam.ag/4simfTe
December 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
End this year’s reading with the best articles we published in 2025, as selected by our editors: https://fam.ag/3MWVHqn
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“I don’t think you can imagine an even more tumultuous time than this,” says Daron Acemoglu. “The question is, how do we navigate these very turbulent waters?”
https://fam.ag/49ivR90
December 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“We are in the midst of, to put it bluntly, destroying every valuable part of the U.S. economic engine.”

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring a conversation with Daron Acemoglu: https://fam.ag/49ivR90
December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
To restore calm to Yemen, the United States “must press Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to quickly de-escalate tensions in the south,” argues April Longley Alley. https://fam.ag/4j5u5LB
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Daron Acemoglu on how to revive the promise of liberal democracy: https://fam.ag/49ivR90
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Our January/February 2026 issue is now available online. Start reading here: fam.ag/3Mxfg8G
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump “is lighting that international order on fire in a way it’s going to take a generation to repair.”

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring a conversation with @kschake.bsky.social:
December 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” @kschake.bsky.social argues that the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of American power. Start listening here: https://fam.ag/494W62u
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Emma Ashford discusses how the United States can prepare to thrive in a multipolar world. https://fam.ag/4pVxgrG
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
According to a new survey, most Syrians are confident in the country’s new leadership, write Salma Al-Shami and Michael Robbins. To maintain these favorable ratings, however, Damascus must build a more “prosperous, inclusive, and democratic Syria.”
https://fam.ag/4rKOQ3q
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” @emmamashford.bsky.social discusses how the United States can prepare to thrive in a multipolar world. Start listening here: https://fam.ag/44RwpzZ
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
In this list, explore the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers: https://fam.ag/43ZrRHt
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Ben Buchanan makes the case for a new grand bargain between tech companies and the U.S. government:
https://fam.ag/4p0YSLL
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” S. C. M. Paine argues that today’s great-power competition is just the latest example of the centuries-old tension between maritime and continental powers.
https://fam.ag/4oV6wr8
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” S. C. M. Paine argues that the United States should maintain the strategies of maritime power that have served it well in the past: https://fam.ag/3X7xqje
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien on Trump’s second-term strategy so far—and where the president’s foreign policy might go from here.
https://fam.ag/3WXbuqZ
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview” features a conversation with Robert O’Brien, who served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. Start listening here: https://fam.ag/4oIga0e
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Orville Schell discusses how China thinks of its place in the world—and what the future of U.S.-Chinese relations could look like. Start listening here: https://fam.ag/47sMu0R
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar discusses Trump’s expansive and often norm-breaking use of presidential power. Start listening here: https://fam.ag/3L8vGDP
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar on Trump’s norm-breaking use of executive power, both at home and abroad: https://fam.ag/4hw8tas
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our November/December 2025 issue is now available online. Start reading here: fam.ag/43muVNq
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Shira Efron, @elgindy.bsky.social, and Daniel Shapiro—three experts on the Middle East—discuss Trump’s peace plan and the Gaza cease-fire.

Start listening here: https://fam.ag/495g3Xq
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring @massdara.bsky.social on the extent to which Russia has managed to learn and adapt—in Ukraine and beyond:
https://fam.ag/46GZpvO
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on the ongoing threat from Russia—and the precarious position of NATO’s frontline states:
https://fam.ag/3Kj3m0V
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM