Foreign Affairs explores diplomacy, conflict, and the institutions that shape global order. From balance-of-power politics to the future of multilateralism, this section examines how prudence, liberty, and pluralism can guide nations through rivalry, cooperation, and the tragic realities of statecraft.
Technology
In new simulations, AI models act like diplomats with personalities: some urge peace, others push warâand their advice changes by flag. When machines start showing foreign-policy instincts, they reveal less about the future of AI than the prejudices of their human past.
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On June 2, 1979, a philosopher-pope spoke in Warsaw and the world tilted. Karol WojtyĹaâs homily restored the human person to history, turning faith into moral resistance. In a single afternoon, wordsânot weaponsâshifted the course of the Cold War.
Economics and Development
In 2023, more than 100 economists warned Javier Mileiâs election would spell âdevastationâ for Argentina. Two years later, GDP is rising, inflation is falling, and fiscal surpluses return. The devastation was not economic but epistemic: the cost of mistaking consensus for truth.
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The UN is no world governmentâand that is its virtue. Its inertia slows war, its discord blocks monopoly, and its stage lets rivals quarrel without empire. Flawed and fragile, it preserves what liberty most requires: prudence, time, and knowledge.
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âł The UNâs future will not be decided by new mandates or bigger budgets, but by whether it can still be trusted to know the world better than anyone else. As the United Nations turns 80, the familiar critiques resurface. The Security Council is paralyzed by vetoes; peacekeeping is costly
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At 80, the UN faces not just a budget crisis but an epistemic one. Its only path to legitimacy lies in knowledgeârigorous, transparent, indispensable. Either it becomes an analytical superpower or drifts into irrelevance.
Faith and Reason
How a 12th-century dialogue between two great Muslim thinkers continues to shape the regionâs choices today. A Debate That Still Resonates In the late eleventh century, the great theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali published TahÄfut al-FalÄsifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers). It was a masterful critique of those who, influenced
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Isaiah Berlin and Leszek KoĹakowski offer a blueprint: Only inclusive, pluralist statecraftânot imposed powerâcan bring Syria back from the brink. The international community must insist on it.