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The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine
Apr 16, 2024 · Yet days after the invasion began, Moscow began probing to find grounds for a compromise. A war Putin expected to be a cakewalk was already proving anything but, and this early openness to talking suggests he appears to have already abandoned the idea of outright regime change.
Antony Blinken: America’s Strategy of Renewal - Foreign Affairs
Oct 1, 2024 · A fierce competition is underway to define a new age in international affairs. A small number of countries—principally Russia, with the partnership of Iran and North Korea, as well as China—are determined to alter the foundational principles of the international system.
Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War - Foreign Affairs
Mar 29, 2023 · A day earlier, on March 5, Xi gave a speech laying out a vision of Chinese self-sufficiency that went considerably further than any of his previous discussions of the topic, saying China’s march to modernization is contingent on breaking technological dependence on foreign economies—meaning the United States and other industrialized democracies.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution | Foreign Affairs
Dec 12, 2015 · THE IMPACT ON BUSINESS. An underlying theme in my conversations with global CEOs and senior business executives is that the acceleration of innovation and the velocity of disruption are hard to comprehend or anticipate and that these drivers constitute a source of constant surprise, even for the best connected and most well informed.
Kissinger and the True Meaning of Détente - Foreign Affairs
Feb 20, 2024 · Few words are more closely associated with the late Henry Kissinger than “détente.” The term was first used in diplomacy in the early 1900s, when the French ambassador to Germany tried—and failed—to better his country’s deteriorating relationship with Berlin, and in 1912, when British diplomats attempted the same thing.
What New World Order? - Foreign Affairs
Mar 1, 1992 · The 1991 Persian Gulf War was, according to President Bush, about "more than one small country; it is a big idea; a new world order," with "new ways of working with other nations . . . peaceful settlement of disputes, solidarity against aggression, reduced and controlled arsenals and just treatment of all peoples."
The Crisis of African Democracy | Foreign Affairs
Dec 12, 2023 · This gloomy picture marks a turn from the relative optimism that characterized the beginning of the twenty-first century on the continent. During the Cold War, both Moscow and Washington made Africa a proxy battleground, warping its politics and fueling wars.Economically speaking, however, many African countries also received generous support from Western …
China Is Still Rising - Foreign Affairs
Apr 2, 2024 · Moreover, the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by over five percentage points since March 2022, from 0.25 percent to 5.5 percent, making dollar-denominated assets more attractive to global investors and boosting the value of the dollar relative to alternative currencies.
How Everything Became National Security - Foreign Affairs
Aug 12, 2024 · In American politics, labeling something a matter of “national security” automatically elevates its importance. In the language of foreign policy observers, national security questions, such as regulating weapons of mass destruction, are matters of “high politics,” whereas other issues, such as human rights, are “low politics.”