May/June 2021

Trade Wars

What’s Inside

Globalization’s Coming Golden Age

Why Crisis Ends in Connection

Harold James

Can Trade Work for Workers?

The Right Way to Redress Harms and Redistribute Gains

Gordon H. Hanson

The Price of Nostalgia

America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat

Adam S. Posen

How Not to Win Allies and Influence Geopolitics

China’s Self-Defeating Economic Statecraft

Audrye Wong

Data Is Power

Washington Needs to Craft New Rules for the Digital Age

Matthew J. Slaughter and David H. McCormick

Crisis of Command

America’s Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security

Risa Brooks, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben

America’s Military Risks Losing Its Edge

How to Transform the Pentagon for a Competitive Era

Michèle A. Flournoy

The Home Front

Why an Internationalist Foreign Policy Needs a Stronger Domestic Foundation

Charles Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz

The Resurgence of the Rest

Can Emerging Markets Find New Paths to Growth?

Ruchir Sharma

Russia’s Weak Strongman

The Perilous Bargains That Keep Putin in Power

Timothy Frye

The Vaccine Revolution

How mRNA Can Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts

Nicole Lurie, Jakob P. Cramer, and Richard J. Hatchett

Competition With China Can Save the Planet

Pressure, Not Partnership, Will Spur Progress on Climate Change

Andrew S. Erickson and Gabriel Collins

Practice What You Preach

Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home

John Shattuck and Kathryn Sikkink

The Singular Chancellor

The Merkel Model and Its Limits

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Voters Against Democracy

The Roots of Autocratic Resurgence

Pippa Norris

A Prison Called Tibet

How China Controls Its Restive Regions

Howard W. French

The Two Rwandas

Development and Dissent Under Kagame

Phil Clark

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers