The top foreign-policy story of 2014 sneaks up on you. It generated precious few headlines. It is even a bit counterintuitive. But if you measure the importance of foreign-policy stories in any given year in terms of their likely impact on international relations in the years ahead, this one stands out from the other candidates. It is not a runaway winner. But it is a story the world would do well not to underestimate, oceans of rhetoric and punditry to the contrary notwithstanding.
Before we get to that story, however, we are at that moment when the year’s most significant developments …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
