Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.

They will fundamentally change the United States’ position in the world economy, untangling the country, at least in part, from global supply chains. Consumer goods companies will make more of their ...

Prakash Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s.

On October 28, 2024, a group of South Korean intelligence officials briefed NATO members and the alliance’s three other Indo-Pacific partners—Australia, Japan, and New Zealand—on a shocking ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

All the while, Soldatov and Borogan took note, as if marking notches in the wall—“that year, two of our friends had moved to the other side.” Before long, Izvestia’s short-lived period of relative ...

Jacob J. Lew and David Satterfield set out to highlight problems that have bedeviled humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza. But they misdiagnose those problems’ root causes, and they are wrong to ...

To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a full wartime footing, the Kremlin has both splurged on ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

Today, they are debating an update to the European Chips Act, which was finalized in 2023 and allocated billions of euros to subsidize chip-making on the continent. The act was meant to increase ...

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading ...

She served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental ...