The Backdoor to American Innovation
How military partnerships make Washington vulnerable to its adversaries.
Putin’s Strategy Is Working
Trump could salvage the Kremlin’s objectives in Ukraine.
The Israel Netanyahu Made
Why Bibi’s national security vision will endure.
What Israel’s Election Won’t Change
The constraints and costs of the new security consensus.
The New Energy Stalemate in Ukraine
Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil…
A Less-Is-More Strategy for America
Barry Posen, a professor at MIT, is one of America's leading experts on international security. He argues that the United States military is breaking down because it has been…
Brazil’s Economic Impasse
Monica de Bolle, an expert in Brazilian economic policy, makes an authoritative argument that Brazil’s economic problems will persist no matter the outcome of the country’s…
How to Secure the Straits
Why Iran and the Houthis keep winning the waterways.
How Russia Sees the World Now
Dmitry Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic…
The Limits of American Power
William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and a major figure in American military affairs, uses history and his personal experiences to make an authoritative case that American…
Empires of AI
In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make…
“Earth Satellites and Foreign Policy”
The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit and whether risks can be managed. In 1957, following the…
AI Is a Choice
Alex Imas, Mohamed El-Erian, and James Manyika, leading voices at the intersection of business and technology, argue that realizing AI’s potential requires giving workers,…
Europe’s Credibility Gap
Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Claas Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece arguing that Europe, despite its attempts at self-sufficiency,…
A Better “America First”
Charles Kupchan, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, argues that many aspects of Trump's foreign policy are worth keeping and align with changes in the…
Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race
Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodsky, researchers at Carnegie’s China AI Initiative, argue that China is betting that AI dominance will come from combining hardware and software,…
The Nuclear Deal That Could Save NATO
Former U.S. NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder argues that the scramble to shore up Europe's conventional defense risks overlooking the continent's greatest security weakness: nuclear…
Trump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical Advantage
Robert Zoellick, an expert on the global economy who served as U.S. trade representative and World Bank president, makes the authoritative case that President Donald Trump’s…
China’s Next Frontier
Technology experts Kathleen Curlee and Sam Bresnick argue that China is catching up to the United States in space, commercially and militarily. This poses a threat to U.S.…
The New Red Sea Wars
Conflicts in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa have become inseparable.
A Democratic Reckoning in India
The battle on the streets over the foundations of the state.
The Case for Economic Espionage
America should spy on foreign companies to help its own.
The Two Africas
Who will benefit from the continent's investment boom?
The End of Gaza
A failing peace process leads to only one outcome.
The Myth of Military Victory
The dangerous idea driving today’s wars of choice.
Ukraine Can Turn Imminent Peril to Its Advantage
How a true “energy cease-Fire” can curb Putin.
The Middle East’s Quiet Liberal Revolution
What people in the region actually believe.
America Shouldn’t Let Go of the Middle East
Why disengagement is not the answer.
The Chokepoint Trap
Niall Ferguson, the leading historian of empire, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and AI scholar Lisa Klassen offer a novel reframing of the US-China AI race in the history of…
Iran’s Theory of Victory
Tehran’s fight for great-power status in the post-American Middle East.
The Fog of Tech
Mara Karlin, a defense policy expert who served as senior national-security official in multiple American administrations, makes an authoritative case that war planners tend to be…
Russia’s Hybrid War Has Entered a Dangerous New Phase
Julianne Smith, who represented the United States at NATO during the Biden administration, argues that Russian hybrid warfare in Europe is escalating quickly, and NATO is not…
The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Richard Fontaine, former members of the National Security Council, argue that the members of what they call the “axis of upheaval”—Russia, China, Iran,…
The Real Lesson of the Iran War
When airpower wins, and when it doesn’t.