Pharaohs, Maharajas, and the Making of a Multipolar World
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...
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The U.S. Can No Longer Stave Off Competition From China
Over the past two decades, a distinctive kind of color-coded map has become a staple of economic journalism. These maps were designed to show the leading commercial partner of countries ...
When the Threat Is Inside the White House
If our nation’s spies are the infantry of our ideology, as John Le Carré once observed, Tom Sylvester is an unknown soldier who became a four-star general. Two years ago, ...
Third Parties in America Usually Fail. Can Elon Musk Change That?
The on-again, off-again feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is on again—and the world’s richest man has kicked things into overdrive. Musk announced over the weekend ...
Energy Security Means Using Less Oil
Following his strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to social media to express his deep worries about oil prices, which had spiked by roughly 20 percent ...
Has Trump Brought Authoritarianism to the U.S.?
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused U.S. President Donald Trump of behaving like a dictator after he deployed federal troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration raids. ...
Is Trump Politicizing the Military?
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. June is flying by! It won’t be long before both of us head to The Hague for the NATO summit, which begins June ...
Congress Must Constrain Trump
One reason Americans like their military so much is that they don’t have to fear it. George Washington established this precedent, demonstrating moderation and deference to the law in responding ...
A Return to Spheres of Influence?
In 1885, Europe’s colonial powers signed the General Act of Berlin, which formalized a plan to carve up Africa. That international agreement included the first reference to a “sphere of ...
How FDR Invented National Security
On Oct. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered one of the most memorable foreign policy speeches in U.S. history. He hadn’t planned to use his time in Chicago to ...
