November/December 2020

What Are We Missing?

What’s Inside

A Better Crystal Ball

The Right Way to Think About the Future

J. Peter Scoblic and Philip E. Tetlock

Heads in the Sand

Why We Fail to Foresee and Contain Catastrophe

Elke U. Weber

The Lawless Realm

Countering the Real Cyberthreat

Marietje Schaake

As the World Burns

Climate Change’s Dangerous Next Phase

Michael Oppenheimer

Coming Storms

The Return of Great-Power War

Christopher Layne

Capitalism After the Pandemic

Getting the Recovery Right

Mariana Mazzucato

China Thinks America Is Losing

Washington Must Show Beijing It’s Wrong

Julian Gewirtz

Rogue Superpower

Why This Could Be an Illiberal American Century

Michael Beckley

A National Security Reckoning

How Washington Should Think About Power

Hillary Clinton

The Transformation of Diplomacy

How to Save the State Department

William J. Burns and Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Uniting the Techno-Democracies

How to Build Digital Cooperation

Jared Cohen and Richard Fontaine

The Underappreciated Power

Japan After Abe

Mireya Solís

No Exit

Why the Middle East Still Matters to America

Steven A. Cook

The Decider

Why Bush Chose War in Iraq

Melvyn P. Leffler

The Long Road to Suffrage

How Women Won the Right to Vote

Jean H. Baker

Hocus-Pocus?

Debating the Age of Magic Money

Raphaële Chappe, Mark Blyth, and Sebastian Mallaby

The Strategies Are Foreign, but the Corruption Is American

A Response to “The Rise of Strategic Corruption”

Sarah Chayes

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers