International relations

Empire Burlesque

by Daniel Bessner,

What comes after the American Century?

The Wicked Abroad

by Charles Austin Beard,

In Henry IV, the king on his deathbed gives his son and heir the ancient advice dear to the hearts of rulers in dire straits at home: I . .…

Operation Overshare

by James Harkin,

How the White House misled Ukraine

Under the Surface

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

One morning in September, a dapper Frenchman seated next to me in the garden of the Château de Tocqueville gestured solemnly at the front page of Le Monde, the house…

The Striking Gesture

by Kevin Baker,

“I was not elected to do small things,” President Donald Trump said upon announcing his new Middle East peace plan at the end of January. Trump was not elected to…

Alms for the Führer

From a list of gifts given to President Trump by foreign officials in 2017, which was published by the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol in March. The…

What China Threat?

by Kishore Mahbubani,

How the United States and China can avoid war

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq, Translated by John Cullen,

One foreigner’s perspective

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

From Russia, With Lies

From 1,649 factually untrue reports published by pro-Kremlin media outlets over the past eighteen months. The reports were compiled by the Disinformation Review, a European Union project set up to…

Tearing Up the Map

by Andrew J. Bacevich, Hamid Dabashi, Hassan Hassan, Kori Schake, Dominique de Villepin, Paula J. Dobriansky,

Toward a post-Obama foreign policy