Foreign Policy

President Joe Biden was keen to tell the world that the Trump years were a blip. But in the end, the opposite was true. Here is FP’s latest print issue, “Trump World”—now available online. Take a look at the essays inside: Rather than strengthening democracy at home, the Biden administration has become the bridge between the first and second Trump presidencies. What went wrong? Kori Schake makes the case that the Biden team never lived up to their own standards. https://lnkd.in/efTeQwXx For many rising economies, Trump’s crude realism is a welcome change from American pieties and one they may be able to exploit. Here is FP’s Ravi Agrawal on how Trump’s return will only accelerate a move toward a more transactional global system: https://lnkd.in/eth_5gPi The world is fragmenting, slowly but surely. But as global challenges mount and require cooperation, such as climate change and migration, countries will eventually want to draw together again, writes Raghuram Rajan. https://lnkd.in/evjeemC7 Why did workers support a billionaire businessman in the 2024 election? Columnist Adam Tooze explains that we need to change how we view class in American society: https://lnkd.in/e5PvdBx5 Trump likes to think his unpredictability is an asset. But does it actually work? Daniel Drezner takes a look. https://lnkd.in/ePHev8SN

Community-run drop-in clinics and outreach efforts have been a critical source of support for Uganda’s most vulnerable communities—and for hopes of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, Andrew Green writes.

Europe has failed to learn from history’s examples—and ignored three distinct geopolitical developments, Jo Inge Bekkevold writes.

The present era is not only one of structural change in powerful territorial states but also of systems change in terms of the nature of the units themselves: countries, companies, and communities across the physical and digital domains, Parag Khanna writes.

Hollywood’s struggles in China are not just about politics, Lizzi C. Lee and Mengyuan Li write.

Europeans are coming to terms with the necessity to rearm, and this will have wide-reaching consequences, columnist Howard W. French writes.

Europeans are brainstorming about what decoupling from the U.S. in trade and defense could mean for them, writes Anchal Vohra.

Canadians across the political spectrum now support trade retaliation and want strong rebukes of Trump’s annexation claims, Kevin Yin writes.

Russia has undermined U.S. national interests in the Middle East by supporting America’s regional adversaries, Jonathan Lord writes.

Trump’s overriding foreign-policy objective is to end the war in Ukraine, writes FP columnist Matthew Kroenig.