Diplomacy
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.
Who Is China?
Beijing’s self-inflicted identity crisis.
Heartland vs. Rimland
The battle lines in the war for the next global order.
Why America Gets Africa Wrong
U.S. policy will get worse before it gets better.
Europe Goes Its Own Way
Drifting from America, the continent Is rearming and reordering itself.
The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America
Economic security begins closer to home.
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 […]