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Rutte wears a dark suit and tie with sunglasses." style="width:auto;" class="image -fit horizontal-orientation" src="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?w=800?quality=90" srcset="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?quality=90 1500w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=150,100&quality=90 150w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=550,367&quality=90 550w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=768,512&quality=90 768w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=400,267&quality=90 400w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=1000,667&quality=90 1000w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mark-Rutte-NATO-GettyImages-1525045838.jpg?resize=325,217&quality=90 325w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" loading="lazy" > </a> <figcaption style="height:0;opacity:0;">Mark Rutte gestures with both hands, his mouth open, as he sits behind the wheel of a car as reporters with microphones and video cameras swarm the vehicle, some of them sticking microphones through the open drivers' side window. Rutte wears a dark suit and tie with sunglasses.</figcaption> </figure> <div class="list-text" "> <a class="hed-heading -excerpt" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/23/profiles-global-leaders-international-power-brokers/"> <h3 class="hed">Inside the Minds of Global Power Brokers</h3> </a> <div class="dek-heading -excerpt"> <p class="dek">A collection of our recent profiles, from Mark Rutte to Claudia Sheinbaum.</p> </div> <div class="meta-data -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/category/flash-points/" class="department-name -excerpt "> Flash Points </a> <p class="separator" aria-hidden="true">|</p> <address class="author-list -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/author/chloe-hadavas/" data-author-id="1015537" class="author"> Chloe Hadavas</a></address> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__half--mobile"> <div> <div class="excerpt-content--list --first-post content-block " data-post-id="1147967"> <figure class="figure-image -nocaption"> <a style="padding-bottom:66.666666666667%; " href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/16/world-peace-middle-east-ukraine-america-realism/" class="image-attachment -ratioscale horizontal-orientation"> <img width="800" height="533" alt="mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01" style="width:auto;" class="image -fit horizontal-orientation" src="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?w=800?quality=90" srcset="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?quality=90 1500w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=150,100&quality=90 150w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=550,367&quality=90 550w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=768,512&quality=90 768w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=400,267&quality=90 400w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=1000,667&quality=90 1000w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01.jpg?resize=325,217&quality=90 325w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" loading="lazy" > </a> <figcaption style="height:0;opacity:0;">mcdonalds-war-apocalypse-golden-arches-theory-friedman-conflict-nicolas-ortega-FF_01</figcaption> </figure> <div class="list-text" "> <a class="hed-heading -excerpt" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/16/world-peace-middle-east-ukraine-america-realism/"> <h3 class="hed">Is Peace Still Attainable?</h3> </a> <div class="dek-heading -excerpt"> <p class="dek">Experts once thought globalization would ensure peace. Now, they’re looking elsewhere.</p> </div> <div class="meta-data -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/category/flash-points/" class="department-name -excerpt "> Flash Points </a> <p class="separator" aria-hidden="true">|</p> <address class="author-list -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/author/chloe-hadavas/" data-author-id="1015537" class="author"> Chloe Hadavas</a></address> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="excerpt-content--list --first-post content-block " data-post-id="1145586"> <figure class="figure-image -nocaption"> <a style="padding-bottom:66.666666666667%; " href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/19/music-culture-international-affairs-diplomacy-artists/" class="image-attachment -ratioscale horizontal-orientation"> <img width="800" height="533" alt="Lithuanian pianist Darius Mazintas plays music by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, on Mount Kremyanets in Izyum, Kharkiv region." style="width:auto;" class="image -fit horizontal-orientation" src="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?w=800?quality=90" srcset="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?quality=90 1500w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=150,100&quality=90 150w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=550,367&quality=90 550w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=768,512&quality=90 768w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=400,267&quality=90 400w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=1000,667&quality=90 1000w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ukraine-music-GettyImages-1245599174.jpg?resize=325,217&quality=90 325w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" loading="lazy" > </a> <figcaption style="height:0;opacity:0;">Lithuanian pianist Darius Mazintas plays music by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, on Mount Kremyanets in Izyum, Kharkiv region.</figcaption> </figure> <div class="list-text" "> <a class="hed-heading -excerpt" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/19/music-culture-international-affairs-diplomacy-artists/"> <h3 class="hed">How Foreign Policy Shapes Music Around the World</h3> </a> <div class="dek-heading -excerpt"> <p class="dek">From the United States to Ukraine, music has influenced—and been influenced by—international politics.</p> </div> <div class="meta-data -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/category/flash-points/" class="department-name -excerpt "> Flash Points </a> <p class="separator" aria-hidden="true">|</p> <address class="author-list -excerpt"> <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/author/chloe-hadavas/" data-author-id="1015537" class="author"> Chloe Hadavas</a></address> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="excerpt-content--list --first-post content-block " data-post-id="1144310"> <figure class="figure-image -nocaption"> <a style="padding-bottom:66.666666666667%; " href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/05/modern-empires-imperialism-colonialism-internet-china-russia-us-history/" class="image-attachment -ratioscale horizontal-orientation"> <img width="800" height="533" alt="A photo collage illustration shows Russian President Vladamir Putin walking with a shadow cast before him on a red field. In front of him is the crown of a Russian tsar and a Soviet-era statue with hammer, sickle, and star." style="width:auto;" class="image -fit horizontal-orientation" src="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?w=800?quality=90" srcset="https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?quality=90 1884w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=150,100&quality=90 150w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=550,367&quality=90 550w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=768,512&quality=90 768w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=1536,1024&quality=90 1536w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=400,267&quality=90 400w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=1000,667&quality=90 1000w, https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-HPoverride.jpg?resize=325,217&quality=90 325w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" loading="lazy" > </a> <figcaption style="height:0;opacity:0;">A photo collage illustration shows Russian President Vladamir Putin walking with a shadow cast before him on a red field. 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