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Liberal states have been on the defensive for too long.

Desperate to jump-start its economy, Kabul is sick of waiting for Beijing to tap the country’s mineral wealth.

Biden’s pause on arms sales to the Saudis underscores how lobbying will be even more crucial for Riyadh.

If China is seeking a reset of relations, it has a strange way of showing it.

The big strategic game in Asia isn’t military but economic.

The Egyptian president enjoyed relative impunity during the Trump years. Now, an uptick in repression at home—and criticism from abroad—may end up spelling his downfall.

Efforts at regional reconciliation have done nothing to address the core differences that divide Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.

To get Washington’s Gulf partners on board, Biden needs an actual strategy for protecting them and ways to make them contribute to it.

Jan. 6 was a classic example of propaganda by the deed—a revolutionary approach favored by everyone from 19th-century anarchists to Osama bin Laden.

Foreign Policy recommends: Revolution 1.

The Russian regime has barely started to tap its vast toolkit for violence and intimidation.

The incumbent president won in a landslide, but a populist right-wing candidate raised eyebrows in a country that has so far avoided extremes.

Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.

America’s reality TV autocrat was a homegrown creation.

Conte’s ruling coalition is out—but that may not be the end for the prime minister.

But Philippe Etienne says France won’t surrender its dream of “strategic autonomy.”

With Steve Murphy, DEA

Linda Thomas-Greenfield is staffing her New York and Washington offices with a range of career and political foreign-policy hands with extensive experience in U.N. affairs.