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A New Path to Middle East Security

How American Commitments in the Gulf Can Rebuild the Regional Order

James F. Jeffrey and Elizabeth Dent

Can Democracy Still Make a Comeback?

Hope for a Freer Future Is Dimmed but Not Lost

The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy

A Conversation With Robert O’Brien

Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously

How His Second Term Is Reshaping America and the World

Peter D. Feaver

The Folly of India’s Illiberal Hegemony

China Gains From New Delhi’s Support for South Asian Autocrats

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Ukraine’s Hardest Winter

With the Donbas in Peril, Europe Must Pressure Russia Now

A Hidden Hunger Crisis Is Destabilizing the World

How Food Insecurity Provokes Violence—and Weakens Even Wealthy States

America’s Self-Defeating China Strategy

A Policy That Confuses Strength and Weakness

How Netanyahu Survives

Divide and Conquer in Gaza and at Home

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Growing Global Economic Uncertainty

The Imperative of International Cooperation

Hyung Kon Park, APEC CEO Summit 2025

Global Climate Policy Is Broken

Fixating on Emissions Won’t Decarbonize the World’s Economy

Jessica F. Green

Milei’s Tightrope Act

Why the Argentine President Will Struggle to Exploit His New Mandate

María Victoria Murillo

How War in Taiwan Ends

If Deterrence Fails, Could America Thwart China?

Terror Returns to Darfur

Only American Pressure Can Stop the Killing in Sudan

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The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy

A Conversation With Robert O’Brien

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Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice

A Conversation With Orville Schell

The Cheney Effect

How Dick Cheney Became the Accidental Architect of Trump’s Power

The Slow Death of Russian Oil

Why Ukraine’s Campaign Against Moscow’s Energy Sector Is Working

Tatiana Mitrova and Sergey Vakulenko

The Case for Trump’s Second-Term Foreign Policy

Peace Through Strength Is Delivering Stability and Security

Robert C. O’Brien

Book Reviews

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The Miseducation of Xi Jinping

How a Father’s Struggle Revealed the Price of Power

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The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History

By Moritz Föllmer

Andrew Moravcsik

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Forging Latin America: Profiles in Power and Ideas, 1492 to Today

By Russell Crandall

Richard Feinberg

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The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

By Gordon Corera

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Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression, and Palestine-Israel

By Zaha Hassan and H. A. Hellyer

Making Multipolarity Work

How America Should Navigate a New Global Order

Japan Can Keep the Indo-Pacific Open and Free

With America Stepping Back, Tokyo Should Step Up

The Regime Change Temptation in Venezuela

If Past Is Prologue, a U.S. Attempt to Overthrow Maduro Would Not End Well

Alexander B. Downes and Lindsey A. O’Rourke

The Pacific Islands Challenge

In America’s Tug of War With China, Oceanic Democracy Is Caught in the Middle

The Fantasy of a New Middle East

Israel Cannot Destroy Its Way to Peace

How to Put IR Theory Into Practice

American Strategists Should Think More Like Social Scientists

Stacie E. Goddard and Joshua D. Kertzer

America and China Can Have a Normal Relationship

How to Move Past Strategic Competition

How to Solve Gaza’s Hamas Problem

Disarming the Group Will Require Arab and Muslim Forces—and Strong American Leadership

Jonathan Panikoff

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Editor’s Pick

America’s Coming Crash

Will Washington’s Debt Addiction Spark the Next Global Crisis?

Kenneth S. Rogoff

Structure Trumps Agency in the U.S.-China Relationship

Why the Competition Is Here to Stay

Mira Rapp-Hooper

The Military-Narrational Complex

What Stories Do in an Age of Conflict

Elizabeth D. Samet

The New Eurasian Order

America Must Link Its Atlantic and Pacific Strategies

Julianne Smith and Lindsey Ford

Toward a Taiwan Truce

How Trump and Xi Can Pull Back From the Brink

Stephen Wertheim

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