Similar Wars End in Similar Ways; Spheres by Default; The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace
Foreign Affairs This Week

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This week’s highlights:

- Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea by Gideon Rose

- Spheres by Default by Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

- The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace by Thant Myint-U

- Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise by Ivan Krastev

- Podcast: A. Wess Mitchell discusses Trump’s foreign policy strategy

- How Europe Found Its Nerve by Matthias Matthijs and Nathalie Tocci

- Q&A: Orville Schell unpacks the Trump-Xi summit

 

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U.S. flight operations during the Iran war at an undisclosed location, March 2026 

Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea

Similar Wars End in Similar Ways

By Gideon Rose

 
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing, May 2026

Spheres by Default

How U.S. Concessions Are Quietly Becoming Chinese Influence

By Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

 
The United Nations logo at the UN headquarters in New York City, September 2025 

The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace

War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations

By Thant Myint-U

 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, April 2026

Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise

The Dawn of a Strange New European Consensus

By Ivan Krastev

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