Browse all articles written by Holmes Liao for Foreign Affairs.

For Iran and the United States, August 24 was Groundhog Day. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” declared U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

The Fractured Superpower Federalism Is Remaking U.S. Democracy and Foreign Policy Jenna Bednar and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Sept/Oct 2022 ...

Many observers in both Beijing and Washington view the emerging consensus as a contingent result of the interests of the two men currently in charge. Trump, for instance, has taken it upon himself to ...

Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon, in ...

In July, Bloomberg reported that for the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center global polling, the world now views China more favorably than the United States. The sentiment was not ...

Europe itself, he said, needed to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.” Last month, to turn this vision into reality, the Pentagon launched its Europe Posture Review, which is ...

Political & Legal G. John Ikenberry Economic, Social, & Environmental Barry Eichengreen Military, Scientific, & Technological Lawrence D. Freedman East Asia Elizabeth Economy South Asia Pratap Bhanu ...

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, security, and economic and social issues in the Middle East and the evolution of U.S. policy in the region.

LAWRENCE D. FREEDMAN is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, where he taught from 1982 to 2014 and served as Vice Principal from 2003 to 2013. He is a Foreign Affairs book ...

Separated from China by a roughly 100-mile-wide strait, Taiwan relies on its navy as the first line of defense against a potential invasion. It must be able to prevent an assault by a Chinese force ...

An international affairs education enables us to go back to the theoretical drawing board to understand the foundations of democracy and the need for international cooperation, make sense of a rapidly ...