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The Fragile Axis of Upheaval

An Autocratic Alliance Is Mostly an Illusion—but Could Become a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The Once and Future Transatlantic Alliance

A More Active and Independent Europe Can Bring America Back to the Table

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Paul B. Stares

The Key to Ukraine’s Survival

How a United Europe Can Help Kyiv Keep Up the Fight

Celeste A. Wallander

Can Iran Save Itself?

The Islamic Republic Is Attempting Reform at Home—so It Can Withstand Pressure From Washington

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

A Better Way to Defend America

Base More U.S. Forces in the Western Hemisphere—and Fewer in Asia and Europe

Stephen Peter Rosen

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March/April 2025

The World Trump Wants

American Power in the New Age of Nationalism

Michael Kimmage

Putin’s Ukraine

The End of War and the Price of Russian Occupation

Nataliya Gumenyuk

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What Comes After Democratic Breakdown

Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way

The Renegade Order

How Trump Wields American Power

Hal Brands

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The Promise of the Egyptian Plan for Gaza

How Cairo Can Make Peace—and Once Again Lead the Arab World

Lisa Anderson

Misunderstanding McKinley

Why the Gilded Age Tariff Model Won’t Work for Trump

Aroop Mukharji

How to Toughen Up Taiwan

America Must Help the Island Deal With China’s Gray-Zone Tactics

Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones

The Return of Spheres of Influence

Will Negotiations Over Ukraine Be a New Yalta Conference That Carves Up the World?

Monica Duffy Toft

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Spotlight: Trade Wars

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The Incoherent Case for Tariffs

Trump’s Fixation on Economic Coercion Will Subvert His Economic Goals

Why the World Still Needs Trade

The Case for Reimagining—Not Abandoning—Globalization

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

How to Make Trade Work for Workers

Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism

Robert E. Lighthizer

Washington’s New Trade Consensus

And What It Gets Wrong

Gordon H. Hanson

America Is Fighting the Wrong Trade War

The China Shock Is Over—and More Tariffs Will Not Help Workers

Niccolò W. Bonifai, Nita Rudra, Rodney Ludema, and J. Bradford Jensen

What Does Trump See in Putin?

A Conversation With Fiona Hill

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Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last?

Two Centuries of History Offer Lessons for How to Forge a Durable Agreement

G. John Ikenberry and Harold James

Why America Struggles to Build

How Economic Policy Can Remove the Real Barriers to Progress

Brian Deese

The Incoherent Case for Tariffs

Trump’s Fixation on Economic Coercion Will Subvert His Economic Goals

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

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What Does Trump See in Putin?

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Iran Could Lose Iraq

The Axis of Resistance Is Primed to Take Another Hit

Michael Knights and Hamdi Malik

America’s Eroding Airpower

Washington Must Upgrade Its Fleet of Planes, Drones, and Missiles

Stacie L. Pettyjohn

Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age

How Trump Might Drive Proliferation

Gideon Rose

A Plan for Peace Through Strength in Ukraine

Europe Must Step Up, but America Still Has a Role to Play in Ending the War

Stephen Hadley, Daniel Fried, and Franklin D. Kramer

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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

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Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order

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Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul

By Rowan Jacobsen

The Limits of a U.S.-China Deal

Even If Trump Wants a Grand Bargain, the Countries’ Economies Will Keep Drifting Apart

Brendan Kelly and Michael Hirson

The Paradox of Trump’s Economic Weapon

Why Short-Term Success Will Hasten Long-Term Decline

Nicholas Mulder

The Myth of the Hardened Border

Why Crude Restrictions Can’t Stop Migrants, Drugs, or Disease

Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman

When Nuclear Weapons Fail to Deter

The Ultimate Weapon Is Not Always the Best Defense

Paul Avey

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Putin’s Point of No Return

How an Unchecked Russia Will Challenge the West

Ukraine Without America

How Kyiv Can Persist in the Face of a Hostile Washington

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

America Can Best Help Syria by Getting Out 

Washington Should Withdraw Its Troops, Engage With the Government, and Pull Away From the SDF

Robert S. Ford

The Coming Age of Territorial Expansion

Climate Change Will Fuel Contests—and Maybe Wars—for Land and Resources

Michael Albertus

The Case for Partition in Western Sahara

How to Convince Morocco to Accept the Least Bad Solution

Hannah Rae Armstrong

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