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Volume 96, Number 3

May/June 2017

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Present At the Destruction?

Present at the Destruction?

What's Inside

Gideon Rose

Steve Bannon, senior counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, January 2017.

The Plot Against American Foreign Policy

Can the Liberal Order Survive?

G. John Ikenberry

Let’s get ready to rumble: a rally in Pyongyang, January 2016

A Vision of Trump at War

How the President Could Stumble Into Conflict

Philip Gordon

Donald Trump speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 2016.

Is America Still Safe for Democracy?

Why the United States Is in Danger of Backsliding

Robert Mickey, Steven Levitsky, and Lucan Ahmad Way

At your service: H. R. McMaster with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, February 2017

The Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy

The Right People, the Right Positions

Matthew Kroenig

Workers listen to 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Canton, Ohio, March 2012.

The Liberal Order Is Rigged

Fix It Now or Watch It Wither

Jeff D. Colgan and Robert O. Keohane

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing a bill in the White House, March 2017.U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing a bill in the White House, March 2017.

The False Promise of Protectionism

Why Trump’s Trade Policy Could Backfire

Douglas A. Irwin

At the headquarters of the CIA, in Virginia, August 2008.

Intelligence and the Presidency

How to Get It Right

Jami Miscik

Special delivery: unloading North Korean coal in Dandong, China, December 2010.

Getting Tough on North Korea

How to Hit Pyongyang Where It Hurts

Joshua Stanton, Sung-Yoon Lee, Bruce Klingner

Superdelegates: the Assembly of Experts meeting in Tehran, March 2012.

Iran’s Next Supreme Leader

The Islamic Republic After Khamenei

Sanam Vakil and Hossein Rassam

Rousseff in Brasília after being stripped of the presidency, September 2016.

Brazil’s Never-Ending Corruption Crisis

Why Radical Transparency Is the Only Fix

Brian Winter

The truth is out there: a simulation of black holes, released at a conference in February 2016

How to Maintain America’s Edge

Increase Funding for Basic Science

L. Rafael Reif

Napping at a brokerage in Qingdao, China, April 2013.

The Boom Was a Blip

Getting Used to Slow Growth

Ruchir Sharma

A U.S. soldier at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, Iraq, May 2004.

Tortured Souls

The Crimes of the War on Terrorism

Antonio Taguba and Scott Cooper

Too close for comfort? Trump at a rally in Tampa, Florida, October 2016.

Democracy on the Brink

Protecting the Republic in Trump’s America

Suzanne Mettler

Gone but not forgotten: Qaddafi in Rome, November 2009

Libyan Ghosts

Searching for Truth After Qaddafi

Robert F. Worth

We can hear you now: a former NSA monitoring base in Bad Aibling, Germany, July 2013.

Hack Job

How America Invented Cyberwar

Emily Parker

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and his advisors discuss Vietnam in the White House, October 1968.

Mind Games

The Partnership That Upended Social Science

Yuen Foong Khong

Mattis and Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo, February 2017.

Asia in the Trump Era

From Pivot to Peril?

Bilahari Kausikan

Political and Legal

The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen

Realpolitik: A History

Economic, Social, and Environmental

Global Trends: Paradox of Progress; World on the Move: Consumption Patterns in a More Equal Global Economy

The Curse of Cash

Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy; A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

A Little History of Economics

Military, Scientific, and Technological

Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II; The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany; Alamein

Religion on the Battlefield

The United States

Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World

Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations

The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America’s Greatest Political Family

The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914–24

Western Europe

A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991–2003

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of “Les Misérables”

Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent, and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe

Why the UK Voted for Brexit: David Cameron’s Great Miscalculation

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

Western Hemisphere

China’s Strategic Partnerships in Latin America: Case Studies of China’s Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991–2015

Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Four Seasons in Havana

Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Beyond the Scandals: The Changing Context of Corruption in Latin America

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia; The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations

Lenin on the Train

Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community

Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

Milosz: A Biography

The Middle East

The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State; The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Middle East

A People Without a State: The Kurds From the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism; The Kurds: A Modern History

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

Asia and Pacific

Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline, From Obama to Trump and Beyond

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology

A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy

Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy

To Build a Free China: A Citizen’s Journey

Africa

Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa

Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity, and State Formation

Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism

Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa’s Deadliest Conflict