Foreign Policy Magazine

AN FP SPECIAL REPORT: In May, Foreign Policy’s Africa editor, Ty McCormick, traveled with photojournalist Nichole Sobecki to Agadez, Niger, an age-old trading post and a gateway to the Sahara that has become the epicenter of the modern humansmuggling

Kasim Muhammed Tahir, 58 Kasim fled Mosul with his family in the middle of November 2016 after an airstrike destroyed their house. The only thing he saved was his pet bird, Abboud, which he has had for more than five years. “I’d rather die than lose

ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN—As the sun sets over the city’s snowcapped mountains, Yerbolat and May Ospanov settle into the gray sofa. May slides her hands over Yerbolat’s, which lie clasped on his knee. Then, with a precision honed through countless recitatio

BALTIMORE—On June 29, 1987, Jermin Laviera attended her first English-language lesson still wearing her wedding dress. Though she had just arrived in Baltimore from Venezuela eight days earlier, acquiring the ability to communicate in her new home wa

AMMAN, JORDAN—Tagreed Daftar’s thick black hair falls past her shoulders, stark against her bright floral blouse. She is fidgety in the crisply lit conference room at the CARE relief agency’s east Amman center, where refugees come for counseling, the

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER HOSSEIN FATEMI first set out to document the Iranian-American immigrant community, not all of his subjects were happy about it. Some 400,000 Iranians currently live in the United States, making up a diverse group with different reli

ON OCT. 1, 1977, MY PARENTS, MY TWO SISTERS, AND I BOARDED A LUFTHANSA PLANE in the dead of night in Bombay. We were dressed in new, heavy, uncomfortable clothes and had been seen off by our entire extended family, who had come to the airport with ga

With tens of millions of migrants and refugees expected to arrive in Europe in the coming decades, in addition to the million-plus who have arrived in each of the last two years, the European Union is pouring billions of dollars into countering migra

IT IS ALMOST COMPLETELY DARK in Ángeles De Andrés’s sixth-floor apartment. A nightlight reflects off a 3-foot statue of the Madonna, which is flanked by porcelain angels. A red kilim covers the wooden floor. Dressed in sweatpants and a blue shirt, De

OF ALL OF AFGHANISTAN’S LAWLESS PROVINCES, Nimruz is perhaps the rawest and most untamed. The desert in southwestern Afghanistan, cornering up against Iran and Pakistan, looks like something out of Mad Max: a post-apocalyptic wasteland where only cam

“THE EXECUTIVE POWER shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”— Article II, Section 1, U.S. Constitution Debates over executive authority generally take place at the margins of the president’s powers. Our collective understandi

NO ISSUE IS AS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED with U.S. President Donald Trump’s ascendancy as immigration, but those who thought his only concern was stopping illegal immigration weren’t paying close attention. Trump’s ugly campaign rhetoric may have focused on

MY FAVORITE BEIRUT CAFE is on a street corner opposite a large park, one of the few green spaces in the concrete jungle that is the city I still call home. The trees in the park, known as the Jesuit Garden because it was once a summer retreat for Jes

Since coming to power in 2016, the new Jamaican government, led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has transformed the country’s economy and business environment. The budget deficit has been eliminated, debt reduced, taxes reformed and legislation int

5 COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID TIPS FROM ADMISSIONS EXPERTS AT LEADING SCHOOLS A strong grad school application begins with the basics: Be clear about your goals and your reasons for applying. Show openness as well as direction. "The world is changing, a

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "We want students who are passionate about studying international relations," says Anthony Arend, senior associate dean for faculty and graduate affairs at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Forei

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs Faculty at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies want to see a record of academic and professional success as well as three other key qualities: • A clear explanation

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "We look for candidates who are creative, passionate, and driven, and who demonstrate that they are poised for success," says Sidney T. Jackson, assistant dean of global enrollment and recruitment at t

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "Successful candidates to SIS make a thoughtful and concerted effort to understand who we are and what we do as a school," says Jia Jiang, director of graduate enrollment management at the American Uni