International Relations

The slate of Democratic candidates includes two Rhodes scholars, two ex-soldiers, and a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But don’t count on them to resurrect a Pax Americana.

Academics need to get better at reaching non-experts. Narrative media offer one possibility.

Neither Trump nor the international relations experts who cheered his choice to withdraw U.S. troops have wrestled adequately with the costs of departure.

Around the world, political freedom isn’t just slipping away—it’s getting dragged down by fervent enemies.

The competition between the United States and China will decide the continent’s fate—and one of them has a head start.

It's only a matter of time until major powers try to stop climate change by any means necessary.

Five global problems that are getting worse—and may never get better.

The only thing that’s clear about the changing world order is that Americans can shape their role in it—and that they’re likely to mess it up.

If you’re an outsider with a political agenda, there’s no better country to target than the United States.

The future will be determined by a handful of big questions that don’t yet have answers.

Six reasons some powerful states punch below their weight for lengthy periods.

If Western elites understood how the postwar liberal system was created, they’d think twice about asking for its renewal.

Eight reasons that Washington has repeatedly made the mistake of making promises around the world it can’t keep.

Global warming will produce national extinctions and international insurgencies—and change everything you think you know about foreign policy.

America’s post-Cold War presidents could have taken a road that didn’t end at Donald Trump.

China’s vision of world order is a more radical departure—and more realistic alternative—than the West understands.

As the United States and Europe debate the demise of global order, people in forgotten corners of the world are still risking their lives for freedom.

World leaders have never really trusted each other—but the president's behavior undermines American foreign policy anyway.

Realists need to get a lot more realistic about the global legal system.

The world needs new institutions for a new era—and nostalgia for a past that never existed won't help.