Issue #22, Fall 2011

Our Waning Confidence

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Issue #22, Fall 2011

Our Foreign Policy Blind Spots

Leslie H. Gelb

Issue #21, Summer 2011

A World of Our Making

The international order that America created will endure—if we make the transition to a grand strategy based on reciprocity and shared leadership.

G. John Ikenberry

Issue #21, Summer 2011

Threat Position

Progressives who preach declinism and restraint have forgotten that we still face dangerous enemies. A response to Anatol Lieven.

Jeffrey Herf

Issue #20, Spring 2011

A World of Our Making

The international order that America created will endure—if we make the transition to a grand strategy based on reciprocity and shared leadership.

G. John Ikenberry

Issue #20, Spring 2011

Strength Through Restraint

America can scale back its global ambitions and still emerge stronger. In fact, it’s the only way.

Anatol Lieven

Issue #19, Winter 2011

After Hegemony

America is no longer the world’s only pivotal power. Americans are adjusting—but can their leaders?

Nina Hachigian

Issue #17, Summer 2010

America 2021: The Military and the World

Our largest threat: Pakistan. Our alliances: reshuffled by demographics. Terrorism: on the wane (maybe). New frontier for conflict: the Arctic cirlce. Four experts discuss

The Defense Roundtable

Issue #17, Summer 2010

The Hezbollah Problem

To defang Iran, and help Lebanon and Israel, we must demilitarize Hezbollah. Which means we’ll have to talk to them.

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

Issue #15, Winter 2010

The Cairo Conundrum

Egypt is the linchpin to America’s Middle East policy—a policy that must make interests reinforce ideals, rather than conflict with them.

Shadi Hamid

Issue #13, Summer 2009

The Democracy Rule

We can abandon Bushism—and still care how states treat their people. A response to Charles Kupchan and Adam Mount.

James Traub

Issue #12, Spring 2009

The Autonomy Rule

The end of Western dominance means a new foreign policy principle is needed to advance international order.

Charles Kupchan and Adam Mount

Issue #10, Fall 2008

Water’s Edge

It’s time to acknowledge that foreign policy is fair game in presidential politics.

Andrei Cherny

Issue #10, Fall 2008

Democracy and Discontent

With democracy on the run and American power in question, what’s the future of democracy promotion?

Thomas Carothers

Issue #8, Spring 2008

Bolívar’s Ghost

Latin America is a dynamic continent at a political crossroads. The next president’s policy will help lead it toward greater prosperity–or lead it to a dangerous populism.

Ted Piccone

Issue #7, Winter 2008