Global Governance
East Africa: A Crucible of U.S. Diplomacy, Development, and Strategic Challenges
From Cold War strategies to counterterrorism and development U.S. policy in East Africa must do better to balance security and sustainability. East Africa, comprising nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia,...
The U.S. Took Heat for Its ICJ Climate Stance. But It Was Right.
For the people of Vanuatu, climate change is not a distant threat—it’s here now. Rising seas swallow shorelines, storms batter homes, and entire villages face relocation. Desperate to hold the...
Korea’s Six-Hour Martial Law: Three Common Misunderstandings About Security
On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea declared martial law, citing the need to address threats to the state posed by North Korea’s hostility...
COP29 in the Caspian: A Shared Opportunity
When global leaders gather in Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate summit at the end of this year, this event will serve as an important barometer in more ways than one....
The EU’s Carbon Tariff Doesn’t Work for the Rest of the World
Last month, the world descended on Dubai for COP28, the latest annual UN climate conference. The summit featured the first-ever trade day in hopes that trade measures could contribute positively...
Seven Myths About China’s Approach to Global Governance
China has been unprecedentedly active on the world stage since President Xi Jinping’s rise to power. It is historically amazing, given that the West had been urging China to become...
Consumption Presumption: Are Human Beings Destroying the World?
Some people claim that we need to cut our consumption or there will be no hope for the planet. Such claims are based on the thesis that continued growth increases...
The Anarchy That Came
Twenty-five years ago, in the February, 1994 issue of The Atlantic, I published a decidedly unAmerican cover story: unAmerican in that it was pessimistic, deterministic, and, most importantly, declared that...
Depopulation Wars
WARS AND instability are sometimes the result not just of population growth but also of demographic decline. Despite the overall increase in the world’s population, at a rate of around...
A Clash of Generations over American Leadership?
For some time now, scholars and commentators have been aware of a worrisome gap between public and elite opinion with respect to U.S. foreign policy. Elites generally embraced a grand...
Australia Needs to Teach Western Civ
Australian universities have rebuffed Australia’s former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation for wanting to endow programs that are actively pro-Western civilization. Yet, America’s top...
A Call for Realism in Europe
President Donald Trump’s abrogation of the Iran agreement indicates again that progressive Europe is increasingly less relevant to the world. At the same time, the world of power politics has...