Geopolitics
The End of the Long American Century
Trump and the sources of U.S. power.
Worse Than an Axis
The informal alignment of U.S. adversaries is dangerous.
Why Trump’s Congo Deal Is Falling Apart
The limits of “America first” in Africa.
How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance
If Iran gets a new deal with America, so must Israel.
Heartland vs. Rimland
The battle lines in the war for the next global order.
Extreme Weather Will Upend U.S.-China Competition
The cost of falling behind on climate adaptation.
The Strange Triumph of a Broken America
Power abroad comes with dysfunction at home.
Europe Goes Its Own Way
Drifting from America, the continent Is rearming and reordering itself.
True North?
Missed Opportunities Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit In “North Korea as It Is” (May/June 2026), Victor Cha recasts three decades of diplomacy as a strategic failure and claims that North Korean leaders were uniformly deceitful and “determined to build a nuclear arsenal at any cost.” But Cha’s narrative of futility is wrong. Read […]
Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars?
Ukraine isn’t the only battlefield shaping autonomous warfare.