Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is a U.S. magazine that focuses on global relations and American foreign policy. It is produced by the Council on Foreign Relations, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership group and think tank dedicated to U.S. foreign policy and international issues. Established in 1922, the magazine is released in print every two months, and its website features new articles every day.

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Colombia’s Stolen Children

6 days ago | foreignaffairs.com | Elizabeth Dickinson

In the weeks before Edgar Tumiñá was killed with nine shots to his head, the indigenous leader had taken every precaution to avoid being seen while visiting his family in Toribio, a town in the southwestern part of Colombia called Cauca. Tumi, as everyone knew him, had gotten so many death threats that it had become a monotonous form of terror. “They want me dead,” he told me in November. Three months later, he was assassinated. Tumi was a quiet, muscular man in his late 40s.
India and Pakistan Are Perilously Close to the Brink

1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Sushant Singh

On April 24, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before a crowd in the northern state of Bihar and, in a rare shift from his usual Hindi, delivered a warning in English: “India will identify and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the ends of the earth. India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism.
The End of the Global Aid Industry

1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Zainab Usman

Every decade or so, the global aid industry finds that it must transform to survive. During these periods of change, donor countries restructure their aid agencies, shrink or expand their assistance budgets, and lobby for the creation or dissolution of a UN initiative or two. Typically, once the aid industry conforms to the whims of donor countries, the crisis is averted and business continues as usual.
Trump, Ukraine, and the Limits of Presidential Peacemaking

1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Timothy Naftali

A U.S. president was trying to end an exceptionally violent war between Russia and its neighbor. He also had clear preferences on which side he admired more. “I like the Russians,” the president wrote. But the American people favored the other side, and, as a result, he noted, Washington needed to be “scrupulous in its impartiality between the combatants.” The president was Theodore Roosevelt, and the war was between Russia and Japan.
India and Pakistan Are Perilously Close to the Brink

2 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Sushant Singh

On April 24, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before a crowd in the northern state of Bihar and, in a rare shift from his usual Hindi, delivered a warning in English: “India will identify and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the ends of the earth. India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism.
The Invisible Spy: Churchill’s Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Lawrence Freedman |Thomas Maier

In May 1940, almost as soon as he became prime minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill was convinced that the only way to defeat Nazi Germany was to get the United States directly involved in the war. He asked a friend, the Canadian businessman William Stephenson, to mount an operation to convince Americans to join the fight and to counter pro-German and isolationist factions in the United States.
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Ken Opalo |Zeinab Badawi

It is a common practice to divide African history into three epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on two counts. First, it compresses and misrepresents millennia of African history in the “precolonial” period and by so doing casts Africa as a land where nothing changed for vast stretches of time.
Capitalism and Its Critics, A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | John Cassidy

Capitalism and economic globalization have no shortage of critics. As Cassidy shows, their criticisms have remained strikingly consistent over the centuries. His narrative begins with attacks on the British East India Company’s monopoly power in the eighteenth century and runs through the contemporary “de-growth” movement’s lament about the environmentally destructive effects of economic growth.
The Abiy Project: God, Power, and War in the New Ethiopia

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Ken Opalo |Tom Gardner

Gardner’s account of the rise of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is essential reading for those interested in understanding how individual ambition and structural factors combine to mold a leader’s choices. His efforts to consolidate power and push through his vision of modernizing Ethiopia’s economy and politics have been hobbled by the country’s legacy of ethnic politics. A child soldier at 14, then a successful commander, military officer, and politician, Abiy became prime minister in 2018.
Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Feinberg |John Dinges

Dinges has written widely on Washington’s complicity in the murderous activities of South American military juntas in the 1970s. In Chile, immediately following the ruthless 1973 coup, the military executed two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras, brought global attention to the case and implied U.S. involvement in Horman’s demise.