January/February 2025

Stress Test

Can a Troubled Order Survive a Disruptive Leader?

Margaret MacMillan

Trump’s Antiliberal Order

How America First Undercuts America’s Advantage

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

How to Win the New Cold War

To Compete With China, Trump Should Learn From Reagan

Niall Ferguson

Who’s Afraid of America First?

What Asia Can Teach the World About Adapting to Trump

Bilahari Kausikan

Rise of the Nonaligned

Who Wins in a Multipolar World?

Matias Spektor

The Strange Triumph of a Broken America

Why Power Abroad Comes With Dysfunction at Home

Michael Beckley

Putin’s Point of No Return

How an Unchecked Russia Will Challenge the West

Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman

Know Your Rival, Know Yourself

Rightsizing the China Challenge

Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass

The Middle East’s Dangerous New Normal

Iran, Israel, and the Delicate Balance of Disorder

Suzanne Maloney

Why South Korea Should Go Nuclear

The Bomb Is the Best Way to Contain the Threat From the North

Robert E. Kelly and Min-hyung Kim

The Price of American Retreat

Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy

Mitch McConnell

Migration Can Work for All

A Plan for Replacing a Broken Global System

Amy Pope

The Race to Lead the Quantum Future

How the Next Computing Revolution Will Transform the Global Economy and Upend National Security

Charina Chou, James Manyika, and Hartmut Neven

The Rise and Fall of Economic Statecraft

Overreach and Incoherence Hobble America’s Most Powerful Weapon

Henry Farrell

The Man Who Almost Changed China

Hu Yaobang and the Unfinished Business of Reform and Opening

Chen Jian

The Ghosts of Bud Dajo

How an American Massacre Shaped the Philippines

Sheila S. Coronel

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers