September/October 2021

Who Won the War on Terror?

What’s Inside

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected

Nelly Lahoud

Them and Us

How America Lets Its Enemies Hijack Its Foreign Policy

Ben Rhodes

The Good Enough Doctrine

Learning to Live With Terrorism

Daniel Byman

Resistance Is Futile

The War on Terror Supercharged State Power

Thomas Hegghammer

From 9/11 to 1/6

The War on Terror Supercharged the Far Right

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Winning Ugly

What the War on Terror Cost America

Elliot Ackerman

Beijing’s American Hustle

How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power

Matt Pottinger

North Korea’s Nuclear Family

How the Kims Got the Bomb and Why They Won’t Give It Up

Sue Mi Terry

Strategies of Restraint

Remaking America’s Broken Foreign Policy

Emma Ashford

The United States of Sanctions

The Use and Abuse of Economic Coercion

Daniel W. Drezner

Iran’s War Within

Ebrahim Raisi and the Triumph of the Hard-Liners

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

The COVID Charter

A New Development Model for a World in Crisis

Rajiv J. Shah

The Center Cannot Hold

Will a Divided World Survive Common Threats?

Thomas Wright

The Case for Complacency

Does Washington Worry Too Much About Threats?

Tanisha M. Fazal

How Democratic Is the World’s Largest Democracy?

Narendra Modi’s New India

Sadanand Dhume

Strait of Emergency?

Debating Beijing’s Threat to Taiwan

Rachel Esplin Odell, Eric Heginbotham, Bonny Lin, David Sacks, Kharis Templeman, and Oriana Skylar Mastro

Masters and Commanders

Are Civil-Military Relations in Crisis?

Kori Schake, Peter D. Feaver, Risa Brooks, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers