July/August 2025

Dispensable Nation

America in a Post-American World

Kori Schake

Beware the Europe You Wish For

The Downsides and Dangers of Allied Independence

Celeste A. Wallander

The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact

America Needs a New Asian Alliance to Counter China

Ely Ratner

India’s Great-Power Delusions

How New Delhi’s Grand Strategy Thwarts Its Grand Ambitions

Ashley J. Tellis

The End of the Long American Century

Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Might Unmakes Right

The Catastrophic Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force

Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro

Strategies of Prioritization

American Foreign Policy After Primacy

Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

Absent at the Creation?

American Strategy and the Delusion of a Post-Trump Restoration

Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

How to Survive the New Nuclear Age

National Security in a World of Proliferating Risks and Eroding Constraints

Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi

Europe’s Bad Nuclear Options

And Why They May Be the Only Path to Security

Florence Gaub and Stefan Mair

Southeast Asia Is Starting to Choose

Why the Region Is Leaning Toward China

Yuen Foong Khong and Joseph Chinyong Liow

Tell Me How This Trade War Ends

The Right Way to Build a New Global Economic Order

Emily Kilcrease and Geoffrey Gertz

How China Wins

Beijing’s Advantages in a Revisionist Order

Julian Gewirtz

The Arctic Great Game

And Why America Risks Losing It

Heather A. Conley

Behind the Firing Line

How William F. Buckley Reinvented Conservatism

Charles King

Your Land Is Our Land

Property, Power, and the Coming Age of Territorial Conflict

Sunil Amrith

Can America Outcompete China?

Building a Strategy for Scale

Damien Ma and Lizzi C. Lee; Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi

Real Friends, Real Talk

A Response to “The Return of Great-Power Diplomacy”