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

If threats of extreme banking sanctions become the president’s go-to ultimatum, with friend and foe alike, Washington will be playing a very dangerous game indeed, Patrick Chovanec writes.

Economic reality underscores the futility of decoupling efforts by Washington’s China hawks and Beijing’s so-called wolf warrior diplomats.

As a virologist who specializes in outbreaks, Angela Rasmussen writes that having Kennedy at the helm of HHS during an outbreak of a lethal virus is the worst pandemic scenario she can conceive—and it’s a worryingly real possibility.

Rather than act as a swaggering great power that could shore up illiberal leaders, Moscow has been outed as a government that can do neither.

As artificial intelligence butts up against limits to available data, humanoid robots offer a route to transform AI itself, Nicholas Wright writes.

Key differences have emerged between European countries’ approaches to managing what promises to be a tumultuous relationship, Kristi Raik writes.

New Delhi’s position as a net security provider makes it more likely to get off to a good start with the new White House.

Even after nearly three full years of war and a raft of unprecedented economic measures by the U.S. and Europe, there still remains plenty of scope to put an even bigger squeeze on the Kremlin, FP’s Keith Johnson writes.

Trump on Wednesday announced that he plans to sign an executive order instructing the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare an existing migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay to house tens of thousands of migrants, FP’s John Haltiwanger writes.