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The Brexit vote was the result of many things: deep historical forces, individual choices, and the strategies of the campaigns. But above all, it stemmed from the failures of David Cameron’s conservative government, failures with which the United Kingdom will have to live for decades to come.

After dithering for decades, governments finally seem to be paying serious attention to the problem of global climate change. Late last year, at the Paris climate conference, they adopted a major new agreement to limit global warming, beginning a process to strengthen commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time. For many observers, the promises of the Paris conference offer too little, too late.

The September/October 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs.

The Ukraine crisis has reopened old questions about Germany's relationship to the rest of the West, as Germany drifts away from the United States and gravitates toward Russia and China.

In 2017, as crucial elections loom across Europe, the EU will no longer be able to defer hard questions about the migrant crisis. It will test the European project’s liberal values and the EU’s commitment to the international system for protecting refugees that many of its member states have championed for more than half a century.

Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, talks to Foreign Affairs about the court’s achievements and challenges, why so few people have been convicted, and whether the court has a bias towards African cases.

U.S. President Barack Obama came into office determined to end a seemingly endless war on terrorism.

Progress against infectious disease in the developing threatens to create a host of new and destabilizing problems.

Contestation in Iran is not just between the regime and the people, or the old generation and a protesting young generation. Rather, the regime itself is conflicted over its very nature and what its future should look like. 

Donald Trump is an unlikely populist. The Republican nominee for US president inherited a fortune, boasts about his wealth and his many properties, shuttles between his exclusive resorts and luxury hotels, and has adopted an economic plan that would, among other things, slash tax rates for rich people like himself. But a politician does not have to live among people of modest means, or even tout policies that would boost their incomes, to articulate their grievances and gain their support.

Until recently, most Europeans believed that their post-Cold War security order held universal appeal and could be a model for the rest of the world.

The next administration will take the reins of American foreign policy in a world that is more complex than at any point in our modern history, including the twilight of the Cold War and the years that followed the 9/11 attacks. But it is also the case that despite the proliferation of threats and challenges - some old, some new - by almost any measure, we are stronger and more secure today than when President Barack Obama and I took office in January 2009.

Why Washington's mideast pullback makes sense.

Why equality is likely to make a comeback.

It was a relief to the international community when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the confrontational leader of Iran, retired in 2013 after a turbulent eight-year term as Iranian president and was replaced by Hassan Rouhani. The former leader was well known for his denial of the Holocaust and for his earnest suggestions to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in August 2006 that Iran and Germany align against, “the winners of the Second World War.”

Ever since the emergence of mass democracy after World War II, an inherent tension has existed between capitalism and democratic politics; capitalism allocates resources through markets, whereas democracy allocates power through votes. Economists, in particular, have been slow to accept that this tension exists. Instead, they have tended to view markets as a realm beyond the political sphere and to see politics as something that gets in the way of an otherwise self-adjusting system.

In January 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would protect “the free movement of Middle East oil”—with military force, if necessary. For decades, this commitment has stirred remarkably little controversy. But the world has changed dramatically since Carter’s declaration. Is Persian Gulf oil still worth defending with American military might?

 Maduro's supporters in government claim they are united behind him. But some suggest that the Chavista leadership can and even should change. Is there room for compromise? 

The president of the Philippines talks to Foreign Affairs about economic reform, political corruption, and Chinese aggression.

Commercialization and globalization, coupled with a decline in U.S. Defense spending, have ushered in a new era for the U.S. Defense industry. The Pentagon is off to a slow start, however, in weathering the current transition.