May/June 2023

In Defense of the Fence Sitters

What the West Gets Wrong About Hedging

Matias Spektor

The Upside of Rivalry

India’s Great-Power Opportunity

Nirupama Rao

Order of Oppression

Africa’s Quest for a New International System

Tim Murithi

How to Survive a Great-Power Competition

Southeast Asia’s Precarious Balancing Act

Huong Le Thu

The World Beyond Ukraine

The Survival of the West and the Demands of the Rest

David Miliband

Blundering on the Brink

The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok

Postimperial Empire

How the War in Ukraine Is Transforming Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

The Myth of Multipolarity

American Power’s Staying Power

Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

The Perils of the New Industrial Policy

How to Stop a Global Race to the Bottom

David Kamin and Rebecca Kysar

The Age of Energy Insecurity

How the Fight for Resources Is Upending Geopolitics

Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

Israel’s One-State Reality

It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution

Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami

Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy

The Flawed Logic That Produced the War Is Alive and Well

Stephen Wertheim

Kagame’s Revenge

Why Rwanda’s Leader Is Sowing Chaos in Congo

Michela Wrong

The Forty-Year War

How America Lost the Middle East

Lisa Anderson

Keeping the World at Bay

Does Globalism Subvert Democracy—or Strengthen It?

Mark Mazower

Is India’s Rise Inevitable?

The Roots of New Delhi’s Dysfunction

Milan Vaishnav

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers