Our ten best print essays of the year.
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The editors at Foreign Affairs have compiled our ten best print essays of 2023, on topics ranging from the war in Ukraine to global inequality to China’s turn inward. Start reading—or re-reading—below, and find the full collection here.

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Disunited Kingdom

Will Nationalism Break Britain?

By Fintan O’Toole

 
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Why the World Still Needs Trade

The Case for Reimagining—Not Abandoning—Globalization

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

 

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Blundering on the Brink

The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok

 
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The Treacherous Path to a Better Russia

Ukraine’s Future and Putin’s Fate

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz

 
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Xi’s Age of Stagnation

The Great Walling-Off of China

By Ian Johnson

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