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Civil & Military Relations January/February 2020 Review Essay

Paths to Power

Dictators come in several guises—some more treacherous than others.

Reviewed by Anna Grzymala-Busse

Civil Society Nov 1, 2019 Snapshot

The Cure for the Plague Is Decency

Albert Camus’s work offers lessons for those resisting nationalism and irrationalism in today’s embattled democracies.

Robert Zaretsky

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

Political Philosophy Oct 4, 2019 Snapshot

An Odyssey Through the Post-Fact World

Each generation gets the Odysseus it deserves, and an Odysseus who deceives, dissembles, and defrauds is the one best suited to our post-truth, post-fact, and post...

Robert Zaretsky

Mosaic depicting Odysseus and the sirens

Theory Sep 25, 2019 Snapshot

How Americans Were Driven to Extremes

The United States is exceptional even in its polarization.

Thomas Carothers and Andrew O'Donohue

U.S. President William Clinton, a Democrat, next to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, two Republicans, April 1995

Political Philosophy Jul 24, 2019 Snapshot

Max Weber Diagnosed His Time and Ours

One hundred years later, Max Weber's "Politics as a Vocation" remains a guide for the increasingly wretched and violent events now unfolding in our own time and place.

Robert Zaretsky

At the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919

Political Philosophy Jun 28, 2019 Snapshot

Rooting for a New Patriotism

Seventy years since its publication, French philosopher Simone Weil's The Need for Roots is more pertinent than ever.

Robert Zaretsky

Theory January/February 2019 Review Essay

More, Less, or Different?

Jake Sullivan reviews new books by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer criticizing U.S. foreign policy.

Reviewed by Jake Sullivan

Politics & Society Jul 13, 2018 Snapshot

Family Separation and the Triumph of Cruelty

The Moral Cost of the Immigration Crisis

Richard Primus

An undocumented immigrant carries a child after being released from detention in McAllen, Texas, June 2018.

The Best of 2018 July/August 2018 Essay

The Myth of the Liberal Order

Rather than seeking to return to an imagined past in which the United States molded the world in its image, Washington should limit its efforts to ensuring sufficient...

Graham Allison

Sailors aboard the USS George Washington in Hong Kong, January 2012.

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

Ideology Apr 11, 2018 Snapshot

Post-Liberalism, East and West

On debates about how to conceive of national identity and alternatives to liberalism, the West finds itself lagging behind the Middle East.

Shadi Hamid

A protestor holds a cross and Koran in Cairo, December 2012.

Human Rights May/June 2018 Review Essay

The Long Arc of Human Rights

Few have stepped back and considered the overall impact of the broader international human rights movement. In her new book, Evidence for Hope, the political scientist...

Reviewed by Caroline Bettinger-López

Ideology Dec 6, 2017 Snapshot

The New Language of European Populism

In Europe, many anti-immigrant parties have developed a new political discourse; not nationalism, but “civilizationism.”

Rogers Brubaker

The Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, February 2015.

Legal Theory Dec 4, 2017 Snapshot

China's Crown Theorist

As the CCP pushes to consolidate its authority, what might the rise of Wang Huning say about China’s path forward in Xi’s “New Era”?

Ryan Mitchell

Wang Huning at a tribute ceremony in Tiananmen Square, September 2017.

Refugees & Migration Sep 29, 2017 Snapshot

The Liberal Roots of Nativism

In attempting to guard liberal democracy against the perceived threat of foreign values and customs, Trump and others draw from liberal nativism, which traces its...

Jozef Andrew Kosc

U.S. President Donald Trump during a statement about deadly protests in Charlottesville, August 2017.

Ideology November/December 2017 Review Essay

Political Islam After the Arab Spring

In many Muslim countries, mainstream Islamist parties are taking an increasingly secular approach to politics. Yet by doing so they risk destroying the religious...

Reviewed by Olivier Roy

From the Archives Sep 18, 2017 Snapshot

When Prosperity Leads to Disaffection

Evidence from Pakistan reveals how citizens can grow dissatisfied with their governments during periods of prosperity and economic growth.

Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Andrew Healy

A boy carries his sibling in a slum on the outskirts of Lahore, January 2015.

Ideology Aug 29, 2017 Snapshot

America’s Liberal Logjam

Liberals are well aware they are losing control of the West’s political imagination, but not why.

James Poulos

A counter-protestor is detained at a cancelled right-wing rally in Berkeley, California, August 2017.

Labor Jul 24, 2017 Snapshot

Market Parables and the Economics of Populism

The market parable is dangerously alluring: it demands policies that strive for a utopian future and meanwhile delivers disaster.

Jonathan Schlefer

A Bernie Sanders rally in Queens, April 2016.

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The Cure for the Plague Is Decency

War Is Not Over

An Odyssey Through the Post-Fact World

How Americans Were Driven to Extremes

Max Weber Diagnosed His Time and Ours

Rooting for a New Patriotism

More, Less, or Different?

Family Separation and the Triumph of Cruelty

The Myth of the Liberal Order

Trump Doesn't Need a Grand Strategy

Post-Liberalism, East and West

The Long Arc of Human Rights

The New Language of European Populism

China's Crown Theorist

The Liberal Roots of Nativism

Political Islam After the Arab Spring

When Prosperity Leads to Disaffection

America’s Liberal Logjam

Market Parables and the Economics of Populism

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