Theory

Rather than seeking to return to an imagined past in which the United States molded the world in its image, Washington should limit its efforts to ensuring...

In a complex world where leaders’ knowledge is always inadequate, foreign policy victories are often won through improvisation, incrementalism, and adaptation to...

On debates about how to conceive of national identity and alternatives to liberalism, the West finds itself lagging behind the Middle East. 

In Europe, many anti-immigrant parties have developed a new political discourse; not nationalism, but “civilizationism.”

As the CCP pushes to consolidate its authority, what might the rise of Wang Huning say about China’s path forward in Xi’s “New Era”?

In attempting to guard liberal democracy against the perceived threat of foreign values and customs, Trump and others draw from liberal nativism, which traces its...

Evidence from Pakistan reveals how citizens can grow dissatisfied with their governments during periods of prosperity and economic growth.

Liberals are well aware they are losing control of the West’s political imagination, but not why.

The market parable is dangerously alluring: it demands policies that strive for a utopian future and meanwhile delivers disaster.

Western liberals risk mistaking the powerful new resistance to today’s neoliberal order for an attack on the foundations of political democracy.

For nearly four centuries, the concept of sovereignty has occupied the core of what international order there has been. But respect for sovereignty is no longer...

As states increasingly turn to confidence-building measures for managing relations with a modern and growing China, they must focus not only on negotiating the...

Highly personalized leader regimes are coming to the forefront of political systems across the globe

The system of global governance has changed since the United Nations was established in the 1940s. But as international organizations seek reforms, many...

Indeed, after a long hiatus, when it was seemingly banished to the wilderness of esoteric academic debate, “imperialism” is once again a buzzword, either nervously...

Nations don’t go to war to show how courageous they are any more than individual soldiers do; the shame of cowardice is far more compelling. Indeed, d