Our editors’ favorite essays from this year.
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The Best of 2024

The editors at Foreign Affairs have compiled our best essays of 2024, on topics from Gaza’s historical importance to China’s economic crisis to why secret negotiations to end the war in Ukraine came up short. Start reading—or re-reading—below, and find the full collection here.

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The Self-Doubting Superpower

America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made

By Fareed Zakaria

 
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Israel’s Self-Destruction

Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect

By Aluf Benn

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The Trouble With “the Global South”

What the West Gets Wrong About the Rest

By Comfort Ero

 
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The Five Futures of Russia

And How America Can Prepare for Whatever Comes Next

By Stephen Kotkin

 
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How Hamas Ends

A Strategy for Letting the Group Defeat Itself

By Audrey Kurth Cronin

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