Foreign Policy
The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition
Trump’s new spheres of influence.
Caught in the Middle of the Iran War
A Conversation With Anwar Gargash
The World According to Xi Jinping
What China’s ideologue in chief really believes.
Can Israel End Its Forever Wars?
The Netanyahu doctrine could outlast Netanyahu.
The Longest Wars
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career struggling with how to resolve two American wars: first in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan.
The Five Futures of Russia
And how America can prepare for whatever comes next.
The Du Bois Doctrine
Race and the American century.
Why Criminals Love the Chinese Economy
And why Beijing can’t—or won’t—crack down.
The End of the American Middle East
Iran and the last gasp of a failed order.
China’s Legal Weapon
Beijing’s quest to challenge America’s legal hegemony.