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The Economic Consequences of State Capture

The Economic Consequences of State Capture

Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump and his benefactor, the tech billionaire Elon Musk, have taken a chainsaw to the government....

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Foreign Affairs

Elizabeth David-Barrett

China and Russia Will Not Be Split

China and Russia Will Not Be Split

Many American foreign-policy makers dream of being the next Henry Kissinger. Whether they admit it or not, they look to him as the model of shrewd...

03.04.2025 30

Foreign Affairs

Michael Mcfaul

The Free-Trade Paradox

The Free-Trade Paradox

“We must always take heed that we buy no more of strangers than we sell them, for so we should impoverish ourselves and enrich them.” Those words,...

03.04.2025 9

Foreign Affairs

Alan S. Blinder

Why the World Still Needs Trade

Why the World Still Needs Trade

The international economic architecture built after 1945 was based on a powerful idea: economic interdependence is crucial, if insufficient, for...

03.04.2025 4

Foreign Affairs

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The Age of Tariffs

The Age of Tariffs

The era of increasingly free and extensive international trade, built on a rules-based system that the United States helped create, has come to an...

03.04.2025 30

Foreign Affairs

Eswar Prasad

After Free Trade

After Free Trade

Any review that calls the book in question “captivating” and “clear-eyed” and that describes its author as the “most consequential U.S. trade...

03.04.2025 9

Foreign Affairs

Robert E. Lighthizer

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump,...

02.04.2025 3

Foreign Affairs

Henry Farrell

The Pentagon’s Endangered Brain Trust

The Pentagon’s Endangered Brain Trust

In the 1990s, following the Soviet Union’s collapse, few in Washington were thinking about China as a potential future threat. During this...

01.04.2025 10

Foreign Affairs

Andrew F. Krepinevich

The Narrow Path to a New Middle East

The Narrow Path to a New Middle East

The Iranian regime is on its back foot, more vulnerable internally and exposed abroad than at any point since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Before...

01.04.2025 20

Foreign Affairs

Dana Stroul

The Limits of Trump’s Hardball Diplomacy

The Limits of Trump’s Hardball Diplomacy

No great power sustained as dominant a position over its neighboring region as the United States did during most of the twentieth century. But in...

31.03.2025 10

Foreign Affairs

Matias Spektor

What “the Global South” Really Means

What “the Global South” Really Means

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” to build an...

31.03.2025 2

Foreign Affairs

Zachariah Mampilly

How to Save a Democracy

How to Save a Democracy

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months,...

31.03.2025 100

Foreign Affairs

Laura Gamboa

Europe’s Nuclear Trilemma

Europe’s Nuclear Trilemma

Over the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, it has become increasingly clear to European leaders that remaining reliant on the United...

30.03.2025 2

Foreign Affairs

Mark S. Bell