The Return of Japanese Hard Power
Japan’s long-dormant defense industry is finally waking up. Constrained by a constitution imposed by the Allied military occupation after World War II, Japan...
The Lessons of the Long Confucian Peace
For decades, scholars and politicians have marveled at the fact that democracies do not fight one another. “The absence of war between democracies...
Iran’s New Oil Weapon | Foreign Affairs
Despite a fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran, the global economic crisis sparked by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz...
This Is Not the World Russia Wants
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine marked only the peak of Russia’s long turn toward revisionism. Since the Cold War ended, Russia has sought...
Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear
In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has...
America and the Gulf Still Need Each Other
Last May, U.S. President Donald Trump paid a triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the course of...
Why China Waits | Foreign Affairs
A Chinese military takeover of Taiwan is often portrayed as inevitable and imminent. For many observers, including those writing in Foreign Affairs, U.S....
The Winners and Losers of the Iran Energy Shock
For the Middle East, the war in Iran has been another tough lesson in how divisions and competition can yield brutal conflict. But...
The Stakes of Trump vs. Xi
Single combat, the practice of ritualized one-on-one fighting for enormous stakes, dates back to antiquity. In The Iliad, Achilles and Hector engage in...
How America Can Coerce the Cartels
President Donald Trump’s approach to the drug war has been characteristically brazen. Since September, spectacular boat bombings by American forces in the Caribbean...
