November/December 2025

The Stagnant Order

And the End of Rising Powers

Michael Beckley

A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity

How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America

Oren Cass

The New Supply Chain Insecurity

Fortress America Is Not a Safer America

Shannon K. O’Neil

The Return of the Energy Weapon

An Old Tool Creating New Dangers

Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

The AI Grand Bargain

What America Needs to Win the Innovation Race

Ben Buchanan and Tantum Collins

The Autumn of the Ayatollahs

What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?

Karim Sadjadpour

The New Eurasian Order

America Must Link Its Atlantic and Pacific Strategies

Julianne Smith and Lindsey Ford

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin Is Learning From the War in Ukraine

Dara Massicot

China Against China

Xi Jinping Confronts the Downsides of Success

Jonathan A. Czin

The China Model’s Fatal Flaw

Why Beijing Can’t Overcome Overcapacity

Lizzi C. Lee

The Miseducation of Xi Jinping

How a Father’s Struggle Revealed the Price of Power

Orville Schell

Exorbitant Pillage

Can the U.S. Dollar Survive the U.S. Government?

Lael Brainard

Putins All the Way Down

How Russia Was Remade

Joshua Yaffa

Who Has Free Speech?

The Global Fight Over a Powerful Idea

Jacob Mchangama

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers