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The Curse of Middle-Sized Wars

Robert D. Kaplan
Essay

What Is the Endgame in Iran?

Colin H. Kahl
Essay

The Postliberal Superpower

Michael Carpenter
Essay

Why Escalation Favors Iran

Robert A. Pape
Essay

Israel After the Iran War

Shira Efron
Essay

Will China Overplay Its Hand?

Thomas J. Christensen
Essay

The Coming Showdown Over Cuba

Rut Diamint, Laura Tedesco
Essay

Why China Won’t Help Iran

Yun Sun
Essay

How India Can Supercharge Its Development

James Crabtree, Jayant Sinha
Essay

Taiwan Doesn’t Have to Choose

Cheng Li-wun
Essay

One Man’s War

Stephen Pomper
Essay

China Is Winning by Waiting

Kyle Chan
Essay

What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran

Behnam Ben Taleblu
Essay

America the Predatory Hegemon

Stephen M. Walt

America Needs an Alliance Audit

Christopher S. Chivvis
Essay

Why Iran Will Escalate

Nate Swanson
Essay

Japan’s National Security Reckoning

Masataka Okano
Essay

Bonus Podcast Episode: Is There an Endgame in Ukraine?

Michael Kofman

Can America’s Allies Survive the Transatlantic Rupture?

The Multipolar Delusion

C. Raja Mohan
Essay

Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft From Attila the Hun to Kissinger

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

The Dream Palace of the West

Kishore Mahbubani
Response

The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations

Jessica T. Mathews
Capsule Review

The Upside of U.S.-Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific

Elizabeth Economy
Capsule Review

Asia After America

Zack Cooper
Essay

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters With the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

The Age of Kleptocracy

Alexander Cooley, Daniel Nexon
Essay

The Tragedy of Great-Power Foreign Policy

Stacie E. Goddard
Review Essay

The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea

Elizabeth Economy
Capsule Review

How to Survive in a Hostile World: Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

The Price of Peace in Ukraine

Peter Slezkine , Joshua Shifrinson
Essay

Trump’s NATO Dilemma

Sara Bjerg Moller
Essay

Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank

Shira Efron
Essay

How the War in Sudan Could End

Volker Perthes
Essay

How to Navigate the Shifting International Order

Alexander Stubb

There Is Only One Sphere of Influence

Michael Beckley
Essay

The Free World Needs Taiwan

Lin Chia-lung
Essay

The Predatory Hegemon

Stephen M. Walt
Essay

The Paradox of Wartime Commerce

Mariya Grinberg
Essay

America’s Best Chance to Transform Iran

Ilan Goldenberg, Nate Swanson
Essay

Is China Leaving the United States Behind?

Jonathan A. Czin

The World Will Come to Miss Western Hypocrisy

Matias Spektor
Essay

A Better Greenland Deal

Sumantra Maitra, Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
Essay

China’s Economic Statecraft Is Working

Audrye Wong
Essay

The Personalist Global Order

Seva Gunitsky
Essay

The Case for Upending World Trade

Peter E. Harrell
Essay

A Perfect Storm for Taiwan in 2026?

Yun Sun
Essay

The Only Way to Disarm Hamas

Elliott Abrams, Eric Edelman, Rena Gabber
Essay

The Folly of Fatalism in Gaza

Amr Hamzawy, Sarah Yerkes, Kathryn Selfe
Essay

South Korea Can Stand Up to China

Victor Cha
Essay

After Paris

Sebastian Buckup
Essay

How Venezuela Becomes a Quagmire

Meghan L. O’Sullivan
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America Must Salvage Its Relationship With India

Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis
Essay

Russia Is the World’s Worst Patron

Alexander Gabuev, Sergey Vakulenko
Essay

Bosnia’s Unfinished Peace

Elmira Bayrasli
Essay

The Trouble With Regime Change

Richard Haass
Essay

Why Putin Still Prefers War

Andrei Kolesnikov
Essay

How Greenland Falls

Jeremy Shapiro
Essay

The Fate of “America First”

Reid Smith
Essay

The Transactional Trap

Michael Brenes
Essay

The Illusion of Isolationism

Michael E. O’Hanlon
Essay

How Multilateralism Can Survive

Monica Herz, Selina Ho
Essay

A Middle Way for American Foreign Policy

Charles Kupchan, Peter Trubowitz
Essay

The Case for a Grand Bargain Between America and China

Wu Xinbo
Essay

Erdogan’s Imperial Illusions

Asli Aydintasbas
Essay

Gaza’s New Normal

Daniel Byman
Essay

How America and Iran Can Break the Nuclear Deadlock

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Amir Parsa Garmsiri
Essay

Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough?

Ayumi Teraoka
Essay

Europe Is Missing Its Moment

Douglas Rediker, Heidi Crebo-Rediker
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China in Iraq After the War: From Underdog to Unassailable

Elizabeth Economy
Capsule Review

The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats

Zachariah Mampilly
Capsule Review

The Illusion of Nuclear Deterrence

Letter to the Editor

Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

The Allies After America

Philip H. Gordon, Mara Karlin
Essay

China’s Long Economic War

Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Essay

Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations

Maria Lipman
Capsule Review

The Illiberal International

Nic Cheeseman, Matías Bianchi, Jennifer Cyr
Essay

Okinawa: Great Power Competition and the Keystone of the Pacific

Elizabeth Economy
Capsule Review

The Dark Side of China’s Success

Letter to the Editor

Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

How to Survive in a Multialigned World

Tanvi Madan
Essay

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

What Trump’s National Security Strategy Gets Right

Rebeccah Heinrichs
Essay

The Needless Rift Between America and Colombia

Kevin Whitaker
Essay

The Multipolar Mirage

Jennifer Lind
Essay

The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trump’s Strategy

Kori Schake

What Comes After the Axis of Resistance?

Maria Fantappie, Vali Nasr
Essay

The Time to End the War in Ukraine Is Now

Thomas Graham
Essay

How China Wins the Future

Elizabeth Economy
Essay

Compute Is the New Oil

Daniel Benaim
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How Much Abuse Can America’s Allies Take?

Robert E. Kelly, Paul Poast
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The End of the Israel Exception

Andrew P. Miller
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America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order

Emma Ashford

Trump’s Middle East Order

Ray Takeyh
Essay

Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics

Alicia R. Chen
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The India Trump Made

James Crabtree, Rudra Chaudhuri
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The West’s Last Chance

Alexander Stubb
Essay

How Xi Played Trump

Jonathan A. Czin
Essay

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