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What does the future look like for global aid, NGOs, and development diplomacy? Which new approaches in international development should the world move toward? Eight authors tackle these topics in FP’s latest print issue, available to read now: https://t.co/0kvxxcGEt4
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Latin America expert @OliverStuenkel breaks down Trump’s special relationship with Argentine President Javier Milei. What does the U.S. gain from bailing out Argentina? Learn more: https://t.co/gO9kRKdKIg
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The escalating U.S. operation against alleged drug traffickers in Latin America is gradually beginning to face international pushback—including from top allies of Washington.
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Western partners are distancing themselves from the U.S. operation.
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As the Chilean people head to the polls today, the time is ripe for a look back at Pablo Larraín’s movie “No,” which examined the inner workings of the country’s unusual transition back into democratic governance.
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Revisiting Pablo Larraín’s feature film about the advertising campaign that sent Pinochet packing.
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A right-wing victory in Chile’s presidential election would be a remarkable departure from the tradition of restrained and moderate politics as it has been practiced since Chile’s return to democracy, Michael Albertus writes.
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It’s Latin America’s traditional beacon of stability—and its next country to vote for the far right.
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The intensity of nuclear war means that impulse may dangerously override careful thinking—which makes presidential preparedness essential, argues Christopher David LaRoche.
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The commander in chief gets almost no preparation for the ultimate decision. That needs to change.
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Some countries have made unusual concessions to clinch an accord with the White House.
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The new deals contain unusual concessions that could change the flow of goods in Asia.
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Brazil’s so-called war on drugs no longer functions as a policy. It has become an industry that trades lives for legitimacy, writes Felipe Krause.
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An extraordinarily deadly police raid in Rio was anything but an aberration.
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Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.
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Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.
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Post-USAID assistance may depend on a country’s strategic value to Washington.
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Post-USAID assistance may depend on a country’s strategic value to Washington.
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Throughout the war in Ukraine, Putin has behaved less as a globe-striding colossus and more as a fetid, fevered Gollum doing anything and everything he can to grab the ring, argues @cjcmichel.
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Russia’s president is too committed to his own fantasies to ever accept Ukraine’s independence.
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The crisis in which Donald Trump is center stage is one of the deepest yet for the British broadcaster, argues John Kampfner.
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The U.S. government has pushed the legendary broadcaster into a nervous breakdown.
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When it comes to Russia sanctions, late is better than never.
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He was late to the show, but he brought a big stick.
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Last week, after years of drought and reduced rainfall and snowfall, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November.
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Years of drought and neglect have left the city nearly unsustainable.
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While Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has grown increasingly isolated, María Corina Machado has expanded her network of allies.
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María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize—but the fight for democracy is far from over.
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This is madness! FP economics columnist @adam_tooze thinks the U.S. is talking about regime change in Venezuela much too casually—and that it might really be about America’s internal politics instead. Listen to the full episode of @OnesandToozePod here or wherever you get your
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From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, America’s militarized “supply-reduction” strategy has consistently failed to cut the flow of illegal narcotics to the United States, Liliana Devia and Michael Kenney argue.
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You can’t bomb your way out of an illicit market.
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If Trump truly wants to be a peacemaker in Sudan, he should banish the UAE from the negotiating table, argues @suhamusa23.
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If Trump truly wants to be a peacemaker, he should banish the UAE from the negotiating table.
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Protests against U.S. military intervention have popped up across Nigeria following Trump’s recent threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into Africa’s most populous country over false claims of Christian persecution.
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How Nigerians are responding to the U.S. president’s threat to attack “guns-a-blazing.”
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Around the world, progress is being made for women’s rights: Mexico and Japan have elected their first female leaders; Spain and Chile have reached gender parity in their cabinets. @lyricthompson will join FP Live on Nov. 17 at 12:00PM ET to discuss. Register here:
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Thirty years after the Dayton Accords, the agreement itself is a scar that has never entirely healed.
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Thirty years after Dayton, Bosnia is still overseen by a foreigner who has become a source of political instability.
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