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For decades, the United States has used its position at the center of global financial, commercial, and technological networks to punish adversaries and pressure allies, exploiting what the political…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Why Is America Going It Alone?
During his second term, Donald Trump has railed against the United States’ closest allies. He has imposed tariffs, threatened to upend security commitments, and openly challenged the borders of Canad…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of: Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?
In an episode released in January 2025, Senior Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke with the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about the global crash in fertility rates and the looming prospect of depop…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi
In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Uncertain Future of U.S. Relations With India
In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, the scholar and former U.S. official Ashley J. Tellis makes a provocative argument about India’s foreign policy. In a piece titled “India’s Great-Power Delusions…
Published on 3 months ago
Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century
For decades, Joseph Nye was one of the true giants of American foreign policy. His career, in government and in the academy, spanned epochs, and his body of work as a scholar of international relatio…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
The Coming Nuclear Hurricane
It wasn’t long ago that both heads of state and prominent policymakers could speak seriously about a world without nuclear weapons. But in the course of just a few years, nuclear concerns have come b…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Preparing for the World After Trump
For all its promise of disruption, Donald Trump’s first term as president transformed American foreign policy less than most critics feared and some supporters hoped. Alliances held up, the rules-bas…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
What a Stronger Europe Means for America
For years, U.S. presidents have complained that European governments spend far too little on their militaries, leaving the United States to pick up a disproportionate share of the tab for the transat…
Published on 4 months ago
How Weak Is Iran?
Donald Trump pledged not to entangle the United States in wars in the Middle East. But last weekend, he joined Israel’s air campaign against Iran, bombing three nuclear sites before claiming that Ira…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago