May/June 2020

The Fire Next Time

What’s Inside

The Climate Club

How to Fix a Failing Global Effort

William Nordhaus

The Paths to Net Zero

How Technology Can Save the Planet

Inês Azevedo, Michael R. Davidson, Jesse D. Jenkins, Valerie J. Karplus, and David G. Victor

The Strategic Case for U.S. Climate Leadership

How Americans Can Win With a Pro-Market Solution

James A. Baker III, George P. Shultz, and Ted Halstead

A Foreign Policy for the Climate

How American Leadership Can Avert Catastrophe

John Podesta and Todd Stern

The Unlikely Environmentalists

How the Private Sector Can Combat Climate Change

Rebecca Henderson

Building a Resilient Planet

How to Adapt to Climate Change From the Bottom Up

Kathy Baughman McLeod

The Climate Debt

What the West Owes the Rest

Mohamed Adow

The Comeback Nation

U.S. Economic Supremacy Has Repeatedly Proved Declinists Wrong

Ruchir Sharma

China’s Coming Upheaval

Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping

Minxin Pei

What Kim Wants

The Hopes and Fears of North Korea’s Dictator

Jung H. Pak

The End of Grand Strategy

America Must Think Small

Daniel W. Drezner, Ronald R. Krebs, and Randall Schweller

Britain Adrift

The United Kingdom’s Search for a Post-Brexit Role

Lawrence D. Freedman

The Next Iranian Revolution

Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran 

Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh

Making Cyberspace Safe for Democracy

The New Landscape of Information Competition

Laura Rosenberger

The Right Way to Fix the EU

Put Politics Before Economics

Matthias Matthijs

A Few Good Men

Trump, the Generals, and the Corrosion of Civil-Military Relations

Max Boot

The Myanmar Mirage

Why the West Got Burma Wrong

Sebastian Strangio

Trials and Tribulations

A Response to “How Poverty Ends”

Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Two-State Devolution

Will Power Shifts in the Middle East Revive “Land for Peace”?

Tarek Osman and Michael Scott Doran

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers