January/February 2024

The War That Remade the Middle East

How Washington Can Stabilize a Transformed Region

Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr

Why Israel Slept

The War in Gaza and the Search for Security

Amos Yadlin and Udi Evental

Hamas’s Asymmetric Advantage

What Does It Mean to Defeat a Terrorist Group?

Audrey Kurth Cronin

The Self-Doubting Superpower

America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made

Fareed Zakaria

The Atrophy of American Statecraft

How to Restore Capacity for an Age of Crisis

Philip Zelikow

The Case for Conservative Internationalism

How to Reverse the Inward Turn of Republican Foreign Policy

Kori Schake

Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence

Why America Must Reassure, Not Just Threaten, China

Bonnie S. Glaser, Jessica Chen Weiss, and Thomas J. Christensen

The Big One

Preparing for a Long War With China

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

The Crisis of African Democracy

Coups Are a Symptom—Not the Cause—of Political Dysfunction

Comfort Ero and Murithi Mutiga

How to China-Proof the Global Economy

America Needs a More Targeted Strategy

Peter E. Harrell

The American Way of Economic War

Is Washington Overusing Its Most Powerful Weapons?

Paul Krugman

The Price of a Passport

What Is Lost When Citizenship Is Sold

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Washington’s New Trade Consensus

And What It Gets Wrong

Gordon H. Hanson

Thinking Like a State

What Makes Foreign Policy Rational?

John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato; Keren Yarhi-Milo

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers