September/October 2024

The Perils of Isolationism

The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World

Condoleezza Rice

America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future

And They’re Already Here

Mark A. Milley and Eric Schmidt

What Was the Biden Doctrine?

Leadership Without Hegemony

Jessica T. Mathews

The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft

A Grand Strategy for a Turbulent World

Walter Russell Mead

The Trouble With Allies

America Needs a Playbook for Difficult Friends

Richard Haass

The Case for a Clean Energy Marshall Plan

How the Fight Against Climate Change Can Renew American Leadership

Brian Deese

How Everything Became National Security

And National Security Became Everything

Daniel W. Drezner

The Crumbling Foundations of American Strength

Knowledge Is Power—and the United States Is Losing It

Amy Zegart

The New Bioweapons

How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World

Roger Brent, T. Greg McKelvey, Jr., and Jason Matheny

China’s Real Economic Crisis

Why Beijing Won’t Give Up on a Failing Model

Zongyuan Zoe Liu

Stopping the Next China Shock

A Collective Strategy for Countering Beijing’s Mercantilism

Aaron L. Friedberg

The Dictator’s Enabler

Searching for the Real Zhou Enlai

Orville Schell

The Autocratic Allure

Why the Far Right Embraces Foreign Tyrants

Beverly Gage

Sapiens in the Mist

What the Fight About Humanity’s Origins Reveals About Its Future

Priya Satia

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers

Can Hamas Be Left to Defeat Itself?

Debating the Endgame in Gaza

Ophir Falk; Audrey Kurth Cronin

Is Progressive Realism Real?