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Periodic table
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### The Periodic Table of States
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The org chart for a post-Westphalian world.
[Infographic](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/infographic/)
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[Parag Khanna](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/parag-khanna/)
[](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/trump-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-nato-security-guarantees-korea-poland-germany-japan/)
An undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 16, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launch of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location.
[
### An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb
](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/trump-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-nato-security-guarantees-korea-poland-germany-japan/)
Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.
[Argument](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/analysis/argument/)
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[Debak Das](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/debak-das/), [Rachel A. Epstein](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/rachel-a-epstein/)
[](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/13/duterte-marcos-drug-war-icc-arrest1189610/)
Rodrigo Duterte holds a microphone while giving a speech.
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### Rodrigo Duterte Will Face Justice. Will Anyone Else?
](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/13/duterte-marcos-drug-war-icc-arrest1189610/)
A deadly war on drugs in the Philippines isnât over.
[Analysis](https://foreignpolicy.com/channel/analysis/)
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[Nick Aspinwall](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/nick-aspinwall/)
[](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/trump-us-migration-asylum-darien-mexico-border-sheinbaum/)
Migrants wait outside facilities run by Mexicoâs Commission for Refugee Assistance in Naucalpan, Mexico, on Jan. 28.
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### Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border
](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/trump-us-migration-asylum-darien-mexico-border-sheinbaum/)
Asylum applications in Mexico are up, and northbound crossings in Panama are down.
[Latin America Brief](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/latin-america-brief/)
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[Catherine Osborn](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/catherine-osborn/)
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### Will Trump Use the Federal Reserve as Leverage, Too?
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[Christopher Smart](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/christopher-smart/)
March 14, 2025, 11:03 AM
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[Andrew Green](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/andrew-green/)
March 14, 2025, 10:08 AM
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[Steven A. Cook](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/steven-a-cook/)
March 13, 2025, 4:18 PM
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[Keith Johnson](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/keith-johnson/)
March 13, 2025, 3:52 PM
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A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in the Sibi, Pakistan, on March 12.
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### Did Trump Signal More Security Cooperation With Pakistan?
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[South Asia Brief](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/south-asia-brief/)
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[Michael Kugelman](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/michael-kugelman/)
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### India Opens Up for Trumpâs Tech Backers
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### China Is Exploiting Americaâs Social Divisions
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### Does India Have a Diplomatic Role in Ukraine?
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### China Leans Into Trade War
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[China Brief](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/china-brief/)
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[James Palmer](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/james-palmer/)
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### Trumpâs Pick for Key Pentagon Role Faces Off With GOP Hawks
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### Another High-Ranking Chinese Official Falls
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### Could Trumpâs Favorite Word Double as Climate Policy?
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### The New Gold Rush
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Money and education no longer explain voting patterns.
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Countries and companies with clout might thrive. The rest, not so much.
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An aerial view shows the leveling of whole city blocks in Tokyo after U.S. incendiary bombing raids in 1945.
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### The Forgotten Bombing
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Eighty years on, the focus on the atomic bombs overlooks the impact of the Tokyo air raid.
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[Richard Overy](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/richard-overy/)
* [](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/protest-resistance-movements-if-we-burn-bevins-review-haberlen-revolution/)
The book covers for If We Burn and Beauty Is in the Street
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### Is Protest Dead?
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* [](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/pope-francis-autobiography-politics-migration-trump-hope-book-review/)
Hope: The Autobiography, Pope Francis, trans. Richard Dixon, Random House, 320 pp., $32, January 2025.
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### A Hopeful Pope Francis Wonât Be Silenced
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The book cover for The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
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### How Gaza Shattered the Westâs Mythology
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The book cover for Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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### Americaâs Economic Warfare Is Sowing Its Own Demise
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A grid of 12 fiction book covers out in February 2025.
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### The Novels Weâre Reading in February
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History, Josephine Quinn, Random House, 592 pp., $38, September 2024.
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### The Clash Over Civilizations
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[Ian Morris](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/ian-morris/)
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### Americaâs Zero-Sum Economics Doesnât Add Up
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Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
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[Adam Posen](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-posen/)
* [](https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/11/us-china-russia-multilateralism-diplomacy-alliances-trade/)
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### A New Multilateralism
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Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.
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### Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
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### A Day Inside Putinâs Surreal Television Empire
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### No, the World Is Not Multipolar
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
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### 6 Swing States Will Decide the Future of Geopolitics
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Soldiers of the 115th Mechanized Brigade in a house where they are staying when not on the front lines near Lyman, Ukraine.
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### The Mood on the Front Line, Three Years On
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Ukrainian troops watch with anxiety as the United States moves closer to talks with Russia over the war.
[Dispatch](https://foreignpolicy.com/category/news/dispatch/)
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[Fabrice Deprez](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/fabrice-deprez/)
[](https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/china-tibet-tourism-travel-history-culture-xi-jinping-ccp/)
A person wearing a red shawl and an ornate skirt with beads and ornamentation holds a golden object as she poses for a photo in front of Tibetan prayer wheels. A photographer points a camera toward her.
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### How Tourism Trapped Tibet
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The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.
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[Judith Hertog](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/judith-hertog/)
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### Will Trump Use the Federal Reserve as Leverage, Too?
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### PEPFAR Cuts Hit Ugandaâs Most Vulnerable
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March 14, 2025
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### Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border
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March 14, 2025
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### An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb
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March 14, 2025
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### Rodrigo Duterte Will Face Justice. Will Anyone Else?
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