May/June 2022

The World After the War

The Price of Hegemony

Can America Learn to Use Its Power?

Robert Kagan

The Return of Conquest?

Why the Future of Global Order Hinges on Ukraine

Tanisha M. Fazal

The Outsiders

How the International System Can Still Check China and Russia

Stacie E. Goddard

Putin Unbound

How Repression at Home Presaged Belligerence Abroad

Daniel Treisman

Putin’s War on History

The Thousand-Year Struggle Over Ukraine

Anna Reid

The Cold War Never Ended

Ukraine, the China Challenge, and the Revival of the West

Stephen Kotkin

A Country of Their Own

Liberalism Needs the Nation

Francis Fukuyama

The New Nuclear Age

How China’s Growing Nuclear Arsenal Threatens Deterrence

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

A Real Foreign Policy for the Middle Class

How to Help American Workers and Project U.S. Power

Heidi Crebo-Rediker and Douglas Rediker

The Return of Statecraft

Back to Basics in the Post-American World

Eliot A. Cohen

The Middle East Abhors a Vacuum

America’s Exit and the Coming Contest for Military Supremacy

Kenneth M. Pollack

Rebels Without a Cause

The New Face of African Warfare

Jason K. Stearns

A Force for the Future

A High-Reward, Low-Risk Approach to AI Military Innovation

Michael C. Horowitz, Lauren Kahn, and Laura Resnick Samotin

Single-Market Power

How Europe Surpassed America in the Quest for Economic Integration

Matthias Matthijs and Craig Parsons

What War Is Still Good For

Why States Fight

Bridget L. Coggins

Out of Africa

The Real Roots of the Modern World

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Deep Takes

Does a Better Future Lie in the Prehistoric Past?

Walter Scheidel

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers