Author

Charles Kupchan

CHARLES A. KUPCHAN is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former member of the National Security Council staff during the Clinton and Obama administrations, he is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World and No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn.

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A Middle Way for American Foreign Policy

Neither Overreach nor Retreat Can Win Domestic Support

Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz

December 31, 2025

Close NATO’s Door to Ukraine

Years of Empty Promises Have Not Helped Kyiv or Fostered Peace

Charles Kupchan

June 20, 2025

The Deep Roots of Trump’s Isolationism

Democrats Need Their Own “America First” Agenda

Charles Kupchan

September 9, 2024

The Limits of the China Chip Ban

Washington’s Export Controls Could End Up Helping Beijing

Hanna Dohmen, Jacob Feldgoise, and Charles Kupchan

July 24, 2024

Redefining Success in Ukraine

A New Strategy Must Balance Means and Ends

Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan

November 17, 2023

The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine

A Plan for Getting From the Battlefield to the Negotiating Table

Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan

April 13, 2023

NATO’s Hard Road Ahead

The Greatest Threats to Alliance Unity Will Come After the Madrid Summit

Charles Kupchan

June 29, 2022

The Right Way to Split China and Russia

Washington Should Help Moscow Leave a Bad Marriage

Charles Kupchan

August 4, 2021

The Case Against a New Concert of Powers

An Old Remedy Won’t Help Today’s Troubled Global Order

Nicu Popescu; Alan S. Alexandroff and Colin I. Bradford; Richard N. Haass and Charles Kupchan

May 11, 2021

The Home Front

Why an Internationalist Foreign Policy Needs a Stronger Domestic Foundation

Charles Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz

How to Build an Order

An International Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Charles Kupchan and Leslie Vinjamuri

April 15, 2021

The New Concert of Powers

How to Prevent Catastrophe and Promote Stability in a Multipolar World

Richard N. Haass and Charles Kupchan

March 23, 2021

Colossus Constrained

Renewal at Home Requires Restraint Abroad

Charles Kupchan

March 2, 2021

“America First” Means a Retreat From Foreign Conflicts

In a Muted UN Speech, Trump Commits to Pulling Back

Charles Kupchan

September 26, 2019

NATO Is Thriving in Spite of Trump

Adversity Has Made the Alliance Stronger

Charles Kupchan

March 20, 2019

Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

The Themes of His UN General Assembly Speech Have Deep Roots in U.S. History

Charles Kupchan

September 26, 2018

The Clash of Exceptionalisms

A New Fight Over an Old Idea

Charles Kupchan

The Democratic Malaise

Globalization and the Threat to the West

Charles Kupchan

NATO’s Final Frontier

Why Russia Should Join the Atlantic Alliance

Charles Kupchan

Enemies Into Friends

How the United States Can Court Its Adversaries

Charles Kupchan

Minor League, Major Problems

The Case Against a League of Democracies

Charles Kupchan

Serbia’s Final Frontier?

Charles Kupchan

March 12, 2008

Grand Strategy for a Divided America

Charles Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz

Independence for Kosovo

Yielding to Balkan Reality

Charles Kupchan

Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies After the Cold War

Reviewed by Charles Kupchan

Review Mar/Apr 2000

Illiberal Illusions: Restoring Democracy’s Good Name

Charles Kupchan, Juliana Geran Pilon, Nigel Gould-Davies, and Kenneth Cain

Response May/June 1998

Reviving the West

Charles Kupchan