Foreign Policy

A North Korean flag flutters at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

Debating North Korea: US and Chinese perspectives

Susan A. Thornton, Li Nan, and Juliet Lee

38 North Friday, August 27, 2021

9/11, 20 years later: Legacies and lessons

9:30 AM - 11:45 AM EDT

A Mexican patrol boat (R) checks the boat of a fisherman as they stand guard over California Gulf porpoises, also known as vaquitas in San Felipe in Mexico's state of Baja California, March 7, 2008. The vaquita, a tiny stubby-nosed porpoise found only in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, is on the brink of extinction as more die each year in fishing nets than are being born, biologists say. Picture taken on March 7, 2008. REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO)

An economic perspective on policies to save the vaquita

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Enrique Sanjurjo-Rivera, Sarah L. Mesnick, Sara Ávila-Forcada, Oriana Poindexter, Rebecca Lent, Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Dale Squires, U. Rashid Sumaila, Gordon Munro, Rafael Ortiz-Rodriguez, Ramses Rodriguez, and Jade F. Sainz

Frontiers in Marine Science Friday, August 27, 2021

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JULY 5: President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, speaks during a news conference defended his policy of non-violence to combat the violence generated by organized crime at National Palace on July 5, 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Eyepix/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

A hotspot anti-crime strategy in Mexico?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, August 27, 2021

Activists hold placards and banners during a protest to support the anti-coup movement and democracy in Myanmar, near the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat building, ahead of the ASEAN leaders' meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Myanmar’s crisis tests ASEAN

Kavi Chongkittavorn

Friday, August 27, 2021

What is ISIS-K?

Daniel L. Byman and Sean Rameswaram

Today Explained

Friday, August 27, 2021

Afghan collaborators, their families, Spanish soldiers and members of the embassy board a Spanish military plane as part of their evacuation, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 27, 2021. Ministry of Defense of Spain/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

The world reacts to Afghanistan

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Suzanne Maloney, Madiha Afzal, Yun Sun, Bryce Klehm, and Joy Neumeyer

The Lawfare Podcast

Friday, August 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, arrive to provide security in support of Operation Allies Refuge at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Biden’s blundered Afghanistan withdrawal requires keeping military in country

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, August 26, 2021

A U.S. and a British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard during the graduation ceremony of an Afghan National Army (ANA) commando in the Rishkhur district on the outskirts of Kabul, October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN)

It wasn’t hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear.

The Washington Post Thursday, August 26, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attend a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine May 6, 2021. Efrem Lukatsky/Pool via REUTERS

President Zelensky comes to Washington

Wednesday, August 25, 2021