The Foreign Affairs Interview

Iran’s Long War: A Conversation With Ali Vaez and Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

Russia’s Widening War on Europe: A Conversation With Julianne Smith

What America and China Fear Most About AI: A Conversation with Kyle Chan and Helen Toner

Caught in the Middle of the Iran War: A Conversation With Anwar Gargash

How to Understand the New Age of War: A Conversation With Lawrence D. Freedman

The Iran Shock Is Not Over: A Conversation With Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

What Does China Want? A Conversation With Jessica Chen Weiss

Afghanistan After America: A Conversation With Laurel Miller and Graeme Smith

Is a Post-American World Inevitable? A Conversation With Kurt Campbell, Rush Doshi, and Mark Leonard

The future of U.S. foreign policy and the resilience of the international alliance system hinge on whether recent geopolitical shifts represent a temporary reaction to presidential personality or a fundamental, irreversible decline of the post-war order. Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi argue that alliances remain robust, ...

From the Archive: How the Past Shadows China's Future: A Conversation With Odd Arne Westad

Cyberwarfare in the AI Age: A Conversation With Jen Easterly

The End of Free Trade: A Conversation With Robert E. Lighthizer

The global trading system requires a fundamental transition from free-trade idealism to a model prioritizing balanced trade, national sovereignty, and domestic manufacturing. Robert E. Lighthizer, former U.S. Trade Representative, contends that the post-Cold War reliance on globalized markets facilitated a massive tran...

The Future of Palestine: A Conversation With Salam Fayyad

The End of American Military Dominance? A Conversation With Paul Scharre

The proliferation of low-cost, commercially available technologies—specifically drones and artificial intelligence—has fundamentally leveled the playing field between global powers and smaller adversaries. The era of relying on exclusive, exquisite military advantages is over, as battlefields have become increasingly t...

What China Thinks It Can Gain From a Disordered World: A Conversation With Oriana Skylar Mastro

China’s strategy for navigating global turmoil centers on long-term domestic self-sufficiency and the pursuit of great power status, a trajectory largely resistant to the volatility of American politics. While China views the current international environment as challenging, it remains committed to its core objectives,...

The AI Race Nobody Can Win: A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby

America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil: A Conversation With Ian Bremmer

Is the Iran War Coming to an End? A Conversation With Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr

Is Cuba Next? A Conversation With Michael J. Bustamante and Ricardo Zuniga

Are America's Allies Finally Learning to Deal With Trump? A Conversation With Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin

The erosion of the traditional U.S.-led global alliance system during the second Trump term forces international partners to develop independent security strategies, or "Plan B." Former defense and national security officials Mara Karlin and Philip H. Gordon argue that the administration’s transactional foreign policy ...