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How Political Polarization Is Killing Grand Strategy

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The National Interest

Andrew Latham

What makes ‘great powers’ great? And how will they adapt to a multipolar world?

What makes ‘great powers’ great? And how will they adapt to a multipolar world?

Great powers rely on military, diplomatic and economic dominance. But in a multipolar world, power has been duluted.

16.07.2025 1

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

The commitment trap: How Israel, Iran and the US risk becoming prisoners to policies

All 3 nations have sunk costs and made promises that make it harder to find an off-ramp from conflict.

18.06.2025 10

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination

From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

30.05.2025 3

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

What or Where Is the Indo-Pacific? 

How a foreign policy pivot redefined the global map.

16.05.2025 10

The Diplomat

Andrew Latham

What or where is the Indo-Pacific ? How a foreign policy pivot redefined the global map

The term can be traced back to the 1920s, but it only began to gain currency in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

13.05.2025 4

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

Disinformation and other forms of ‘sharp power’ now sit alongside the ‘hard power’ of tanks and ‘soft power’ of ideas in policy handbook

Projecting strength on the global stage doesn’t always require tanks and guns.

29.04.2025 10

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

What Canada’s Elections Really Mean

28.04.2025 6

The National Interest

Andrew Latham

The Thucydides Trap: Vital lessons from ancient Greece for China and the US … or a load of old claptrap?

Is a US-China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’

15.04.2025 3

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

What is a ‘revisionist’ state, and what are they trying to revise?

Dissecting a loaded term in international affairs, and what it means for a country to disrupt the prevailing US-led order that is itself now changing.

31.03.2025 5

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

No, Aircraft Carriers Aren’t Obsolete—Yet

28.03.2025 4

The National Interest

Andrew Latham

What is the rules-based order? How this global system has shifted from ‘liberal’ origins − and where it could be heading next

The ‘liberal international order’ emerged out of the devastation of World War II − is it still relevant today?

17.03.2025 6

The Conversation

Andrew Latham

What is isolationism? The history and politics of an often-maligned foreign policy concept

Rather than clarifying American foreign policy, the term has long been used to tar critics or obfuscate legitimate international affairs questions.

03.03.2025 9

The Conversation

Andrew Latham