Confronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleThe Financial System of the Future
The global financial system is in the midst of profound transformation. This shift represents both a great opportunity for the United States in terms of job creation and potential growth and a new set...
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleTaking on ISIS—and Assad
The civil wars in Syria and Iraq have transformed the jihadist threat to the United States. For the first time, a jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has been able to combine...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleThe Financial System of the Future
The global financial system is in the midst of profound transformation. This shift represents both a great opportunity for the United States in terms of job creation and potential growth and a new set...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleThe Mounting Threats of Climate Change
Once considered a back-burner domestic policy issue, the environment—particularly the urgent need to curb climate change—has emerged as a pressing foreign policy and national security challenge....
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleWe Aren’t the World
Why Wilson Matters: The Origins of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today by Tony Smith • Princeton University Press • 360 pages • $35 Donald Trump is the first President since at...
View ArticleAbbas’s Unmerited Optimism
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he is—once again—ready to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of renewed Middle East peace efforts by U.S. President...
View ArticleWhen Trump Went to Israel
A few days ahead of Donald Trump’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli prime minister’s office in Jerusalem chose to delay a scheduled procedural decision on the possible...
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Yemen and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
War, famine, pestilence, and death, all clearly and intricately related, are now part of daily routine for Yemenis. You’d hardly know it from the sparse news coverage it receives, but a civil war,...
View ArticleCountering Nationalist Oligarchy
Ever since the 2016 election, foreign policy commentators and practitioners have been engaged in a series of soul-searching exercises to understand the great transformations taking place in the...
View ArticleSaving NATO
It is not often that we confront the possibility that we are on the cusp of a completely new era, a fundamental reshaping of the international order. But that is where the world stood in July 2018 as...
View ArticleThe China Battle Has Just Started
Long-term, intense economic competition between China and the United States is inevitable. It’s simply a result of China’s new economic size. It’s about wealth and power, not political systems or...
View ArticleRight-Sizing Foreign Policy
Progressives have the greatest opportunity in decades to shape the foreign policy debate. Their policy agenda, however, needs an overhaul beyond Trump-bashing and harking back to Democrats’...
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