Essay: Rethinking the National Interest

American Realism for a New World

Condoleezza Rice

Essay: The New Israel and the Old

Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State

Walter Russell Mead

Essay: China's Olympic Nightmare

What the Games Mean for Beijing's Future

Elizabeth Economy and Adam Segal

Essay: A Partnership of Equals

How Washington Should Respond to China’s Economic Challenge

C. Fred Bergsten

Essay: In the Tank

Making the Most of Strategic Oil Reserves

David G. Victor and Sarah Eskreis-Winkler

Essay: The Future of North America

Replacing a Bad Neighbor Policy

Robert A. Pastor

Essay: Building a New Atlantic Alliance

Restoring America's Partnership With Europe

James P. Rubin

Review Essay: Democratization and Its Discontents

Should America Push Political Reform in the Middle East?

Eva Bellin

Review Essay: Present at the Re-Creation

A Neoconservative Moves On

Andrew J. Bacevich

Review Essay: Shortsighted Statecraft

Washington's Muddled Middle East Policy

Daniel C. Kurtzer

Review Essay: Terror and the Law

The Limits of Judicial Reasoning in the Post-9/11 World

Curtis A. Bradley

Response: Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?

Parting Ways Over Nationalism and Separatism

James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein; Richard Rosecrance and Arthur Stein; and Jerry Z. Muller

Response: When to Leave Iraq

Today, Tomorrow, or Yesterday?

Colin H. Kahl; William E. Odom

Response: Revolutionary Road?

Debating Venezuela's Progress

Bernardo Alvarez Herrera and Francisco Rodríguez

Response: Does Osama Still Call the Shots?

Debating the Containment of al Qaeda's Leadership

Marc Sageman and Bruce Hoffman