May/June 2024

Essay

China’s Alternative Order

And What America Should Learn From It

No Substitute for Victory

America’s Competition With China Must Be Won, Not Managed

The Delusion of Peak China

America Can’t Wish Away Its Toughest Challenger

The Axis of Upheaval

How America’s Adversaries Are Uniting to Overturn the Global Order

The Five Futures of Russia

And How America Can Prepare for Whatever Comes Next

War Unbound

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Breakdown of International Law

Iran’s Order of Chaos

How the Islamic Republic Is Remaking the Middle East

Israel’s Forever War

The Long History of Managing—Rather Than Solving—the Conflict

The Case for Progressive Realism

Why Britain Must Chart a New Global Course

Spy and Tell

The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage

Climate Policy Is Working

Double Down on What’s Succeeding Instead of Despairing Over What’s Not

Review Essay

All Powers Great and Small

Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better in Geopolitics

Tyrants of Industry

Can the Right Tame Capitalism?

The Leaning Tower of Babel

What We Lose When Languages Die