Comment: Putin the Great

Russia’s Imperial Impostor

Susan B. Glasser

Comment: Party Man

Xi Jinping’s Quest to Dominate China

Richard McGregor

Comment: Erdogan’s Way

The Rise and Rule of Turkey’s Islamist Shapeshifter

Kaya Genc

Comment: The Vigilante President

How Duterte’s Brutal Populism Conquered the Philippines

Sheila S. Coronel

Comment: The Transformer

Orban’s Evolution and Hungary’s Demise

Paul Lendvai

Essay: The Sources of Chinese Conduct

Are Washington and Beijing Fighting a New Cold War?

Odd Arne Westad

Essay: Competition Without Catastrophe

How America Can Both Challenge and Coexist With China

Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan

Essay: The Old World and the Middle Kingdom

Europe Wakes Up to China’s Rise

Julianne Smith and Torrey Taussig

Essay: Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

And Why Decoupling From China Will Change Everything

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

Essay: The Dictators’ Last Stand

Why the New Autocrats Are Weaker Than They Look

Yascha Mounk

Essay: The Return of Doomsday

The New Nuclear Arms Race—and How Washington and Moscow Can Stop It

Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn

Essay: Winning the Peace in Iraq

Don’t Give Up on Baghdad’s Fragile Democracy

Linda Robinson

Essay: The India Dividend

New Delhi Remains Washington’s Best Hope in Asia

Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis

Essay: The Internet Freedom League

How to Push Back Against the Authoritarian Assault on the Web

Richard A. Clarke and Rob Knake

Essay: Can America Still Protect Its Allies?

How to Make Deterrence Work

Michael O’Hanlon

Review Essay: Bad News

Can Democracy Survive If the Media Fail?

Jacob Weisberg

Review Essay: An American in Cairo

Egypt Through Western Eyes

Lisa Anderson

Review Essay: The Population Bust

Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It

Zachary Karabell

Response: We Need to Talk About Germany

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Hans Kundnani

Response: How Democratic Is Hungary?

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Zoltan Kovacs, Larry Diamond

Issue Package: Autocracy Now

What’s Inside

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