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The Enduring Legacy of Robert Gilpin

It's Robert Gilpin's world; everyone else is just living in it.

Helen V. Milner

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U.S. Foreign Policy Aug 15, 2018 Snapshot

The Enduring Legacy of Robert Gilpin

It's Robert Gilpin's world; everyone else is just living in it.

Helen V. Milner

U.S. Foreign Policy Aug 7, 2018 Response

The Real History of the Liberal Order

The postwar international order is not a myth, nor was its creation an accident.

Michael J. Mazarr

The UN Security Council meets at UN Headquarters in New York, July 2015.

Law & Institutions Jul 31, 2018 Response

The Liberal Order Is More Than a Myth

U.S. strategists should not abandon the idea of international order as they think about the future of grand strategy.

Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

Strategy & Conflict May 21, 2018 Snapshot

Trump Doesn't Need a Grand Strategy

In a complex world where leaders’ knowledge is always inadequate, foreign policy victories are often won through improvisation, incrementalism, and adaptation to...

Ionut Popescu

Foreign Policy Oct 10, 2017 Review Essay

The Postcolonial Cold War

Winning the Third World examines how China and the United States competed with each other during the mid-twentieth century for influence among postcolonial nations.

Timothy Nunan

Economics April 1942 Essay

The Economic Tasks of the Postwar World [Excerpt]

Alvin H. Hansen and C. P. Kindleberger

Grand Strategy July 1951 Essay

Widening Boundaries of National Interest [Excerpt]

Nelson A. Rockefeller

The Best of 2017 March/April 2017 Essay

Asia's Other Revisionist Power

Recent Chinese policies have fueled concerns that the country seeks to overturn the post–Cold War geopolitical order. But China is not the only revisionist power in...

Jennifer Lind

You started it: Obama and Xi in Paris, November 2015.

Grand Strategy January/February 2017 Comment

The Once and Future Order

The international order faces illiberal assaults from Russia, China, and, increasingly, populist revolutions among its leading members. Doubling down on U.S. dominance...

Michael J. Mazarr

Crossing the line: Russian soldiers in Crimea, March 2014

Grand Strategy November/December 2016 Essay

How to Succeed in the Networked World

The world’s connections have become more important than its divisions. To reap the rewards and avoid the pitfalls of this new order, the United States needs to adopt a...

Anne-Marie Slaughter

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and UN Climate Change Official Christiana Figueres at the Paris Climate Conference, December, 2015.

Best of 2016 July/August 2016 Essay

The Case for Offshore Balancing

The United States should forgo efforts to remake other societies and concentrate on preserving U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and countering potential...

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima on the Hudson River in New York, May 2011.

Best of 2016 March/April 2016 Essay

Fight or Flight

The next U.S. president will face a difficult choice in the Middle East: do much more to stabilize the region’s ongoing conflicts, or disengage altogether. Both...

Kenneth M. Pollack

Houthi fighters patrol the main street of Sadah, Yemen, June 2015. The Saudis have taken the stunning step of directly intervening in Yemen’s civil war.

Grand Strategy March/April 2016 Letter

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Fix it, Don’t Ditch it

Debra K. Decker

Economics March/April 2016 Essay

The Lost Art of Economic Statecraft

Despite boasting the most powerful economy on earth, the United States has increasingly forgotten how to use economic instruments to accomplish geopolitical objectives...

Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris

Mergers and acquisitions: negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, 1803. Jefferson scored one of the country’s greatest geoeconomic successes in its history when he oversaw the 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory.

Grand Strategy November/December 2015 Essay

Delusions of  Grand Strategy

The periodic production of a national security strategy has been an American ritual since 1986, when the Goldwater-Nichols Act required the president to submit an...

David M. Edelstein and Ronald R. Krebs

President George W. Bush with his foreign policy advisers, September 2001. National security strategizing is meant to make the United States safer;; in fact, it does the opposite.

Best of 2015 November/December 2015 Comment

The End of Pax Americana

Washington is indeed pulling back from the Middle East—not because it doesn’t care or can’t afford to do more, but because policymakers have recognized, correctly,...

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

U.S. soldiers leaving Iraq, December 2011. The potential for American military power to effect major change in the Middle East is diminishing.

Sanctions Feb 22, 2015 Snapshot

Putin and the Hermit Kingdom

Russia tends to make diplomatic overtures to North Korea whenever relations between Moscow and Washington sour. With U.S. strategy in Asia hanging in the balance,...

Van Jackson

U.S. Foreign Policy Nov 10, 2014 Video

Foreign Affairs Focus: Richard Betts on U.S. Strategy

After more than a decade at war, what has Washington learned? Gideon Rose sits down with Richard Betts to discuss.

Grand Strategy November/December 2014 Essay

The Unraveling

With U.S. hegemony waning and no successor waiting to pick up the baton, the current international system will likely give way to a larger number of power centers...

Richard N. Haass

Politics & Society Sep 18, 2014 Video

Foreign Affairs Focus on Books: Evan Osnos on the New China

Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition.

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The Enduring Legacy of Robert Gilpin

The Real History of the Liberal Order

The Liberal Order Is More Than a Myth

Trump Doesn't Need a Grand Strategy

The Postcolonial Cold War

The Economic Tasks of the Postwar World [Excerpt]

Widening Boundaries of National Interest [Excerpt]

Asia's Other Revisionist Power

The Once and Future Order

How to Succeed in the Networked World

The Case for Offshore Balancing

Fight or Flight

Fix it, Don’t Ditch it

The Lost Art of Economic Statecraft

Delusions of  Grand Strategy

The End of Pax Americana

Putin and the Hermit Kingdom

Foreign Affairs Focus: Richard Betts on U.S. Strategy

The Unraveling

Foreign Affairs Focus on Books: Evan Osnos on the New China

How to Improve U.S.-Indonesia Relations

Kofi Annan, Champion for Women’s Rights

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump to Visit Africa

A Year On, Pakistan Still the Weak Link in U.S. South Asia Strategy

The Link Between Foreign Languages and U.S. National Security

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Major Speech on Rakhine State

Creating a State Department Office for American State and Local Diplomacy

The Global Cost of the Eurozone’s 2012 Fiscal Coordination Failure

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