North America

Security Aug 20, 2018 Snapshot

The United States' Perpetual War in Afghanistan

Public anger at home pulled the United States out of Vietnam, but the public's indifference about the intervention in Afghanistan has allowed the United States'...

Tanisha M. Fazal and Sarah Kreps

Politics & Society September/October 2018 Essay

Against Identity Politics

Democratic societies are fracturing into segments based on ever-narrower identities, threatening the possibility of deliberation and collective action by society as a...

Francis Fukuyama

Strategy & Conflict Jul 19, 2018 Snapshot

The Next Cyber Battleground

There’s reason to think that the real cyberthreat from Russia today is an attack on critical infrastructure in the United States—including one on the power grid that...

Rob Knake

Department of Homeland Security workers at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, Arlington, Virginia, January 2015

Law Jan 27, 2017 Snapshot

Got Shorty

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera will stand trial in Brooklyn on a host of U.S. charges related to drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, torture, and intimidation...

Robert C. Bonner and Gillian Horton

From the Archives Jan 24, 2017 Snapshot

Climate Policy in the Age of Trump

A market-driven effort featuring an innovative, entrepreneurial nuclear sector competing for growing global energy markets might persuade many U.S. conservatives to...

Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath, and Jessica Lovering

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order that places a hiring freeze on non-military federal workers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2017.

Security September/October 2016 Interview

Notes From the Chairman

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The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, talks to Foreign Affairs about the future of the U.S. military, the presidential campaign, and why he thinks it's the most dangerous period the United States has faced in his lifetime.

Education September/October 2016 Response

Worth the Trip?

Debating the Value of Study Abroad

Eric R. Terzuolo, Sanford J. Ungar

Hikers take a selfie in Egypt's White Canyon, November 2015

Security September/October 2016 Comment

Preserving Primacy

During the Obama years, the United States’ influence has declined even as threats have grown. A new administration must retain a robust nuclear posture, experiment...

Mac Thornberry and Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

Access denied: during a Chinese naval exercise, April 2009.

Strategy & Conflict September/October 2016 Comment

America’s Awesome Military

The U.S. military is the greatest fighting force in the world, and likely to remain so for some time—worries about a decline are overplayed. But a long-term plan for...

Michael O'Hanlon and David Petraeus

In fighting shape: a U.S. soldier in Laghman Province, Afghanistan, December 2014.

Security Nov 18, 2015 Snapshot

Trudeau's First Steps

Trudeau has underscored how different he would be from his conservative predecessor, Stephen Harper, whom the Canadian historian Robert Bothwell recently called “the...

Adam Rasmi

Economics Oct 26, 2015 Snapshot

From West Texas to the World

On October 7, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to repeal a 40-year-old ban on exports of domestic crude oil to foreign countries. Why is...

Jeff D. Colgan

Law & Institutions November/December 2015 Review Essay

The Law of the Lands

In Justice Stephen Breyer's new book, The Court and the World, he sets forth his views on the interaction between the U.S. legal system and the legal systems...

Richard A. Posner

Political Economy Feb 4, 2015 Snapshot

Cheap Oil Won't Kill Exploration

Low oil prices could force some oil and gas producers to stop drilling. But the price slump may also create a sizable opportunity for new oil exploration projects,...

Kassia Yanosek and David G. Victor

A fuel pump is seen at a filling station in Bamako, January 9, 2015.

Security Jan 7, 2015 Snapshot

Space Wars

Space systems—the backbone of most corporate, military, communication, and even agricultural services—are increasingly threatened by vulnerabilities in cyberspace. The...

Deganit Paikowsky and Gil Baram

Refugees & Migration Nov 5, 2014 Snapshot

Deadly Deportations

If a decrease in border crossings is the metric upon which Obama's response to this summer's immigration crisis is judged, he has succeeded. But his is a hollow...

Lauren Carasik

People wait outside an aid center in Nogales, Mexico that serves people who have been recently deported to Mexico, November 11,

Politics & Society March/April 2014 Letter

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Immigration Matters

Joseph Chamie; Jagdish Bhagwati and Francisco Rivera-Batiz

Intelligence March/April 2014 Response

Hypocrisy Hype

The Manning and Snowden leaks do shed light on U.S. foreign policy, sometimes in an unflattering way. But they certainly do not prove that Washington acts...

Michael A. Cohen; Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore

Economics Oct 28, 2013 Letter From

Greenland's Rare Earths Gold Rush

Global power brokers once dismissed Greenland as a white blot on the world map. No longer: Investors from Australia to Canada to China are flocking to the island in...

Anna-Katarina Gravgaard

Energy Oct 15, 2013 Snapshot

How the 1973 Oil Embargo Saved the Planet

The Arab members of OPEC responsible for the 1973 oil crisis inadvertently gave the rest of the world a life-saving head start in the struggle to avoid, or at least...

Michael L. Ross

Law & Institutions Jul 25, 2013 Letter From

The Cambodian Candidate

The Cambodian national election this Sunday will almost certainly propel the country’s sitting prime minister, the 61-year-old Hun Sen, into his fourth decade of rule....

Sebastian Strangio

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