International Relations

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.

The West knows what Ankara is up to, but won’t call it by its name.

The Trump administration looked small and inconsequential on the international stage.

An annual security gathering in Munich has become the new hot spot for top intelligence officials meeting in the shadows of a public event.

The world’s best national security minds know to study every aspect of foreign policy. That’s not enough.

The latest ranking of the top 50 IR programs for undergraduates, master's, and Ph.D.s.

There’s a lot of innovation on the surface, but the rot runs deep. Here’s how to fix it.

Donald Trump has changed the world — and some people will understand it better than others.

If the United States wants to stand behind the next #IranProtests, it should liberalize rules that impede access to cutting-edge tools against repression.

The United States is ignoring the most basic principle of international relations, to its own detriment.

While some arguments for the decline of the state are insightful and important, none of them have stuck.