Why Erdogan Is Spoiling NATO’s Nordic Welcome Party
A team player on Ukraine, the Turkish leader is ready to use his leverage before accepting NATO’s newest members.
Finns Show Up for Conscription. Russians Dodge It.
Two seemingly similar systems produce very different militaries.
Why China Is Paranoid About the Quad
Beijing has long lived with U.S. alliances in the region, but a realigned India would change the game.
North Korea May Be Trapped Between Famine and Plague
As COVID-19 sweeps through the country, outside help is desperately needed.
Asia
Why Sri Lanka’s Crisis Has No End in Sight
China
Chinese TikTok Users Are in Love With ‘Daddy Putin’
Middle East & Africa
Africa’s Stolen Art Debate Is Frozen in Time
Europe
NATO Countries Begin Ushering Finland and Sweden Into the Fold
Americas
Lula’s Tricky Comeback
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Current Issue: Spring 2022 | Archives
What Exactly Is America’s China Policy?
The United States needs to right-size the China threat to know how to counter it.
How Beijing Sees Biden
For decades, Chinese leaders thought they knew the man who would become America’s 46th president. But he was changing all along.
Ukraine Crisis: What to Read
U.S. Grand Strategy After Ukraine
Seven thinkers weigh in on how the war will shift U.S. foreign policy.
Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia
Global institutions have long relegated much of the world to second-class status.
The West vs. the Rest
Welcome to the 21st-century Cold War.
The Intellectual Catastrophe of Vladimir Putin
The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.
Long Reads
The World Ignored Russia’s Delusions. It Shouldn’t Make the Same Mistake With India.
Hindu nationalist ideologues in New Delhi are flirting with a dangerous revisionist history of South Asia.
What Happened to Europe’s Public Bunkers?
As bombs fall on Ukraine, many European governments are waking up to the sorry state of their own civil defenses.
How to Get Recent History All Wrong
A new book identifies—and misunderstands—the structural forces behind today’s geopolitical chaos.
Moldova Welcomes Ukrainian Refugees but Fears for Its Own Future
The country has offered solidarity to neighbors fleeing Russia’s war. Will it get more support from the EU?
Memory and Diplomacy
Moscow Is Using Memory Diplomacy to Export Its Narrative to the World
Putin is pushing Russian revisionist history to bolster the Kremlin’s influence abroad and its legitimacy at home.
Xi Jinping Is Fighting a War for China’s History
Fear of “historical nihilism” has haunted China’s leadership for years.
Macron’s Algeria Report Isn’t Progress, It’s a Whitewash.
France lost the Algerian War but is still controlling the narrative about its history—while refusing to apologize or pay reparations.
Will Argentina’s Stolen Generation Be Forgotten?
Far-right leaders want to erase the memory of the junta’s disappeared. The fight to remember them is now in the hands of Argentine youth.
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The Month in World Photos
Shocking civilian casualties in Ukraine, a Holocaust survivor’s march in Poland, and a swan’s unusual nest in Serbia. This was April 2022.
Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv
Two weeks into the war, residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city are still surviving in squalid shelters.
