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The Best of 2019 Dec 20, 2019 Snapshot

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The Best of 2019 Oct 28, 2019 Snapshot

The United States Should Fear a Faltering China

Beijing’s newfound assertiveness is a sign of desperation, not ambition.

Michael Beckley

Xi Jinping during the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, October 2019

The Best of 2019 Oct 14, 2019 Snapshot

The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy

Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow

William J. Burns

The Best of 2019 Oct 10, 2019 Snapshot

The End of Asylum

If there were a theme song to 2019, it would be a dirge for the end of asylum.

Nanjala Nyabola

The Best of 2019 November/December 2019 Essay

War Is Not Over

The idea that humanity is past the era of war is based on flawed measures of war and peace. If anything, the opposite is true.

Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast

U.S. soldiers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, December 2010

The Best of 2019 September/October 2019 Essay

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

The Trump administration is bent on severing, not fixing, Sino-American ties. Although many of these policies can be reversed, both Washington and Beijing have taken...

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

Tariff Man: an anti-Trump billboard in Guangzhou, China, August 2018

The Best of 2019 September/October 2019 Essay

The Sources of Chinese Conduct

Over 70 years have passed since George F. Kennan proposed a “containment” policy to guide American policymakers in the Cold War. Odd Arne Westad recommends that the...

Odd Arne Westad

Trump and Jinping in Beijing, November 2017

The Best of 2019 September/October 2019 Comment

Putin the Great

Despite fashioning himself as a tsar, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deep insecurity defines his political decisions.

Susan B. Glasser

The Best of 2019 Jun 4, 2019 Snapshot

What a War With Iran Would Look Like

As tensions between the Iran and United States rise, Ilan Goldenberg examines how a potential war between the two might unfold.

Ilan Goldenberg

Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard at a parade in Tehran, September 2011

The Best of 2019 July/August 2019 Comment

The Self-Destruction of American Power

American hegemony’s death was self-inflicted, the result of Washington’s bad habits and bad behavior.

Fareed Zakaria

The Best of 2019 May/June 2019 Essay

The Longest Wars

Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously...

George Packer

Holbrooke in central Vietnam, early 1967

The Best of 2019 Apr 1, 2019 Snapshot

The Global Language of Hatred Is French

The New Zealand mass killer Brenton Tarrant seems to have been influenced by a particularly French strain of fascist hate that dates back to the end of World War II.

Marc Weitzmann

A memorial site for victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings at the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch, March 2019

The Best of 2019 Mar 19, 2019 Snapshot

What a Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Look Like

Even if a military intervention began well, U.S. forces would likely find themselves bogged down in the messy work of keeping the peace for years to come.

Frank O. Mora

Maduro at a military parade in Campo de Carabobo, Venezuela, December 2016

The Best of 2019 Mar 6, 2019 Postscript

The Problem With Xi’s China Model

As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president, there are signs that the new model’s very successes are becoming liabilities.

Elizabeth Economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, December 2018.

The Best of 2019 Feb 11, 2019 Snapshot

Iran’s Other Generation Gap, 40 Years On

Contestation in Iran is not just between the regime and the people, or the old generation and a protesting young generation. Rather, the regime itself is conflicted...

Narges Bajoghli

Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran, February 1979

The Best of 2019 March/April 2019 Comment

A New Americanism

Historians’ failure to tell a common American national story has ceded the field to charlatans offering their own twisted versions—and allowed a dangerous strain of...

Jill Lepore

Proud to be Americans: at a Trump rally in Huntington, West Virginia, November 2018

The Best of 2019 March/April 2019 Response

E Pluribus Unum?

Stacey Abrams and other authors respond to Francis Fukuyama's Foreign Affairs essay "Against Identity Politics" and discuss the meaning and value of identity politics...

Stacey Y. Abrams; John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck; Jennifer A. Richeson; and Francis Fukuyama

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters during a midterm election night party in Atlanta, November 2018.

The Best of 2019 March/April 2019 Essay

Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?

It's time for Washington to focus on bigger things.

Jason Furman and Lawrence H. Summers

Budget buster: Trump after signing a tax bill, Washington, D.C., December 2017

The Best of 2019 Jan 18, 2019 Snapshot

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is No Longer Unpredictable

At the two-year mark, it is now clear that the president is dominating the struggle against the national security establishement to determine the administraion’s...

Thomas Wright

U.S. President Donald Trump, acting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton hold a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, July 2018.

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The United States Should Fear a Faltering China

The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy

The End of Asylum

War Is Not Over

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

The Sources of Chinese Conduct

Putin the Great

What a War With Iran Would Look Like

The Self-Destruction of American Power

The Longest Wars

The Global Language of Hatred Is French

What a Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Look Like

The Problem With Xi’s China Model

Iran’s Other Generation Gap, 40 Years On

A New Americanism

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Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is No Longer Unpredictable

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