March/April 2021

Decline and Fall

What’s Inside

Present at the Re-creation?

U.S. Foreign Policy Must Be Remade, Not Restored

Jessica T. Mathews

Gone But Not Forgotten

Trump’s Long Shadow and the End of American Credibility

Jonathan Kirshner

A Superpower, Like It or Not

Why Americans Must Accept Their Global Role

Robert Kagan

The Fractured Power

How to Overcome Tribalism

Reuben E. Brigety II

Foreign Policy for Pragmatists

How Biden Can Learn From History in Real Time

Gideon Rose

Short of War

How to Keep U.S.-Chinese Confrontation From Ending in Calamity

Kevin Rudd

Accomplice to Carnage

How America Enables War in Yemen

Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper

How the WTO Changed China

The Mixed Legacy of Economic Engagement

Yeling Tan

System Failure

America Needs a Global Health Policy for the Pandemic Age

Ashish Jha

A New Conservatism

Freeing the Right From Free-Market Orthodoxy

Oren Cass

A Palestinian Reckoning

Time for a New Beginning

Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi

The Innovation Wars

America’s Eroding Technological Advantage

Christopher Darby and Sarah Sewall

Opening Up the Order

A More Inclusive International System

Anne-Marie Slaughter and Gordon LaForge

Democracy on the Defense

Turning Back the Authoritarian Tide

Yascha Mounk

The Rate Debate

Rethinking Economics in the Age of Cheap Money

James H. Stock

The Arena

Southeast Asia in the Age of Great-Power Rivalry

Bilahari Kausikan

The Stories China Tells

The New Historical Memory Reshaping Chinese Nationalism

Jessica Chen Weiss

Market Value

Can Capitalism Serve Democracy?

Binyamin Appelbaum

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers