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Sen. Bernie Sanders's foreign-policy advisor will answer subscriber questions in this special edition of FP Live....

The school of thought doesn't explain everything—but its proponents foresaw the potential for conflict over Ukraine long before it erupted....

What if, instead of being a competitor, China can no longer afford to compete at all?...

Naval power projection is a long way out for Beijing still....

Calling a Taiwanese declaration of independence a "path to death," China's defense chief made waves in Singapore....

And how they're being shaped by international politics....

Many countries in southern Africa want to unload big stockpiles of ivory to fund conservation, even though the trade is banned....

A new nuclear era demands strategy, not just arms control....

Special "protocol" treatment has become a way of life for the privileged few....

Talk of security guarantees for the UAE and a thaw in Washington-Riyadh relations could enhance—or weaken—U.S. standing in the region....

Gabrielius Landsbergis weighs in on why Russia needs to be defeated, why Eastern European states were and are nervous, and why the West needs to step up....

So many crimes are being documented that they need a new court....

Americans need to recognize their own ugly history in Southeast Asia....

"If you cover half of the river, what difference does it make?" one Ukrainian official said of the evasion of sanctions on Russia....

Focusing on military budgets alone hurts the alliance's relevance....

A new book tells the forgotten story of migrants stranded in Libya amid United Nations incompetence and Western indifference....

The controversial Summit of the Americas yields some progress on health and migration cooperation....

Having made inroads in soccer and Formula 1 racing, Saudi Arabia is now making an ambitious play for the world of golf....

Offensive remarks about Islam by ruling party leaders have consequences for New Delhi in Persian Gulf states....

China has gained military and diplomatic footholds in Cambodia and the Solomon Islands....

How two decades of misjudgments by Washington helped lead Tehran to the nuclear brink....

Nearly 4 million refugees are caught in the crossfire of Ankara's heated domestic politics....

The administration wants to support human rights, but it doesn't have the courage of its convictions....

Russia's proposed solutions are disingenuous. Only advanced Western weapons can end the Black Sea blockade....

"This meeting is in part about setting guardrails on the relationship," a senior U.S. defense official said....

The two leaders have little in common other than a desire to look busy at the Summit of the Americas....

The censorship of Li Jiaqi's livestream highlights sensitivity around the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre....

Despite emergency measures, there's little chance of a price drop....

Trying to make Mohammed bin Salman a "pariah" was bound to fail....

Official candidacy for the bloc is unlikely, but even a lesser accession status would send a powerful signal....

The Chinese Communist Party will crack down rather than risk losing control....

"If that's our attitude, we're never going to win a war again, ever," said one U.S. source familiar with the debate....

The Mexican president is the most high-profile of absentees from today's Los Angeles gathering....

Ankara's arms sales to Niger could make the country the center of counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel....

But Russia's early military failures in Ukraine don't make it any less dangerous, military analysts warn....

Afghanistan's new rulers are looting the past—again....

Johnson remains Britain's prime minister but faces a restive Conservative Party as more than 40 percent of his party's members of Parliament voted against his leadership....

With the bloc's unity over Ukraine showing cracks, NATO needs an overhaul....

Mistrust and disagreements over privacy have impeded a partnership that could transform the global digital economy....

Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to FP about Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, the future of NATO, and more....

Belgium's King Philippe is visiting Congo this week, but the country still has much to do to make amends....

The battle for the Donbas could well be the deadliest phase of the war....

The Biden administration shut down a touchpoint for thousands of refugees from Afghanistan—and left its diplomats in agonizing limbo....

They should be more scared of shutting it off....

Green plans are secondary to political demands....

The IAEA's Board of Governors held off from a formal rebuke last year, so what's changed?...

India, now courted by all sides, is the clear beneficiary of Russia's war....

And what they mean for geopolitics—and for the region's island democracies....

A new book on the documents recovered in the Abbottabad raid reveals an organization far weaker than many believed it to be....

Ironically, geopolitical strife and energy scarcity will do more for the climate than decades of ardent policies....