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Theory January/February 2019 Review Essay

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

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

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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...

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...

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.

Ideology Jul 21, 2017 Snapshot

Liberalism and Democracy in the West

Western liberals risk mistaking the powerful new resistance to today’s neoliberal order for an attack on the foundations of political democracy.

James Poulos

A 95-by-50 foot American flag displayed in Manchester, New Hampshire, June 2017.

Theory May/June 2017 Review Essay

Mind Games

In The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis lays bare the emotions, intellectual intensity, and tensions behind the friendship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky that...

Yuen Foong Khong

Law & Institutions January/February 2017 Comment

World Order 2.0

For nearly four centuries, the concept of sovereignty has occupied the core of what international order there has been. But respect for sovereignty is no longer...

Richard N. Haass

Rocket man: Kim Jong Un at a missile testing site, April 2016.

Theory Oct 6, 2016 Snapshot

Overconfidence in Confidence Building

As states increasingly turn to confidence-building measures for managing relations with a modern and growing China, they must focus not only on negotiating the terms...

David C. Logan

Best of 2016 Sep 26, 2016 Snapshot

The New Dictators

Highly personalized leader regimes are coming to the forefront of political systems across the globe

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright

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Domestic Politics May/June 2016 Review Essay

Reading Hume in Tehran

Laura Secor’s Children of Paradise is a vibrant panorama of contemporary Iran that doubles as a thorough intellectual and political history of the country’s...

Ervand Abrahamian

Global Institutions Apr 8, 2016 Snapshot

The Reform Reformation

The system of global governance has changed since the United Nations was established in the 1940s. But as international organizations seek reforms, many falter in...

Tine Hanrieder

The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) are pictured in Geneva, Switzerland, March 22, 2016.

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