Foreign Affairs

Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.

Civilizationism would upend America’s role in the world.

Trump's war has brought American strategy to a dead end.

Conservatives finally won and took over the state.

And why Beijing can’t—or won’t—crack down.

The best soldiers know how to think for themselves.

Congress must lead to compete with Beijing.

Iran and the last gasp of a failed order.

Why Washington still risks losing the tech race.

Preparing for a world of synthetic pathogens.

The case against pessimism and the path to a new allied order.

Learning to live in a post-American world.

The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

A quarter century before 9/11, an upsurge in global terrorism prompted the historian David Fromkin to examine its purpose and method. Terrorism was a strategy of the weak, Fromkin wrote in these pages, but modern technology had enabled it “to enter the political arena on a new scale.” And its surprising success seemed to be due, in large part, “to a miscomprehension of the strategy by its opponents.”

How to make government work again.

What the youngest continent stands to gain from growing old.

How Washington’s fear of Chinese investment hurts American competitiveness.

Hormuz and the new geography of energy power.

How to support the movement resisting the Taliban’s extremism.

Decades of hard-won mediation experience point the way.