March/April 2026

The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power

Stephen M. Walt

The Age of Kleptocracy

Geopolitical Power, Private Gain

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System

Nadia Schadlow

The Multipolar Delusion

And the Unilateral Temptation

C. Raja Mohan

America and China at the Edge of Ruin

A Last Chance to Step Back From the Brink

David M. Lampton and Wang Jisi

Asia After America

How U.S. Strategy Failed—and Ceded the Advantage to China

Zack Cooper

Women’s Rights Are Democratic Rights

The Global Authoritarian Backlash to Gender Equality

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ukraine and the New Way of War

Learning the Right Lessons for the Conflicts of the Future

Rebecca Lissner and John Kawika Warden

Europe’s Next Hegemon

The Perils of German Power

Liana Fix

Europe’s Next War

The Rising Risk of NATO-Russia Conflict

Samuel Charap and Hiski Haukkala

The Tragedy of Great-Power Foreign Policy

Do Realists Hold the Solution to a World in Crisis?

Stacie E. Goddard

China’s Fragile Future

How Secure Is the CCP?

Andrew J. Nathan

The Cracks in the India Model

Democracy Can Be Both Curse and Cure

Yamini Aiyar

The Dream Palace of the West

Why the Old Order Is Gone for Good

Kishore Mahbubani

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers