Foreign Affairs
The Best of 2025
Our Editors’ Top Essays of the Year
December 28, 2025
We’ve compiled our favorite articles covering the United States’ slide into authoritarianism, China’s economic strategy, the future of Iran, and more. Start reading—or rereading—below.
The Strange Triumph of a Broken America
Why Power Abroad Comes With Dysfunction at Home
Michael Beckley
Jan/Feb 2025
Ending War Is Hard to Do
Can Trump Reach Real Settlements in Ukraine and Gaza?
Gideon Rose
January 21, 2025
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What Comes After Democratic Breakdown
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way
Mar/Apr 2025
Putin’s Ukraine
The End of War and the Price of Russian Occupation
Nataliya Gumenyuk
Mar/Apr 2025
What “the Global South” Really Means
A Modern Gloss for Old Divisions
Zachariah Mampilly
April 1, 2025
Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose
Beijing Has Escalation Dominance in the U.S.-China Tariff Fight
Adam S. Posen
April 9, 2025
How China Armed Itself for the Trade War
Beijing’s High-Risk Approach to Its Economic Confrontation With Washington
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
April 29, 2025
The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition
Trump’s New Spheres of Influence
Stacie E. Goddard
May/Jun 2025
Underestimating China
Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages
Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi
May/Jun 2025
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American Foreign Policy in an Age of Unrestrained Executive Power
Elizabeth N. Saunders
June 16, 2025
How Iran Lost
Tehran’s Hard-Liners Squandered Decades of Strategic Capital and Undermined Deterrence
Afshon Ostovar
June 18, 2025
Making America Alone Again
History Offers Few Parallels for Washington’s Repudiation of Its Own Alliances
Margaret MacMillan
July 21, 2025
Why Xi Still Doesn’t Have the Military He Wants
China’s Force Has Been Remade—but Can It Be Trusted?
Jonathan A. Czin and John Culver
August 18, 2025
The Autumn of the Ayatollahs
What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?
Karim Sadjadpour
Nov/Dec 2025r
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