Grand Strategy
PODCAST: Rethinking American Grand Strategy (w/ Ionut Popescu)
What should America’s grand strategy look like in a world shaped by resurgent great powers, regional conflict, and rising multipolarity? Rethinking American Grand Strategy (w/ Ionut Popescu) As China pushes...
Toward a Foreign Policy for the Working Class
A foreign policy for the working class is not merely a call to rebuild America’s physical and technological infrastructure but to restore its moral and spiritual foundations. In the third...
How Trump’s Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Impacts the Ukraine War
To understand the real importance of the Israel-Hamas deal, look to Ukraine—and to Russia.
Is A “Balance of Power” Strategy Irrelevant?
It is possible—though far from certain—that the coming Trump presidency will herald a broad retreat from most of America’s overseas military commitments and actions. In the past, Trump has expressed...
China and Saudi Arabia: A Delicate Balancing Act
Even as China continues to foster closer relations with Iran and its regional proxies—notably the Houthis in Yemen—it isn’t doing so at the stake of its relationship with Saudi Arabia or...
Calibrating U.S.-Kazakh Cooperation
Over the past three decades, Kazakhstan, the largest economy in Central Asia, has emerged as a key player on the global stage. It currently holds the chairmanship of the Collective...
An Indian Ocean Strategy Is Key to Prevailing Over China
The United States needs robust and complementary Pacific and Indian Ocean strategies to prevail over China in an attritional economic competition or military conflict. The Indian Ocean, as the bridge...
Italy’s Middle Power Dilemma
Recently, the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour joined France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom in Exercise Pitch Black 24 in Australia. This high-intensity training aims to boost interoperability with...
A Proportional Response? American Strategy and the Red Sea
“What is the virtue of a proportional response?” asks President Jed Bartlet of his National Security Council (NSC) in one episode of The West Wing. “They hit an airplane, so...
Urgently Needed: A Europeanized NATO
Russia has shown by its expansionist and illegal wars against Ukraine and Georgia that it is a chronic threat to the peace and security of Europe. In case of a...
The Preponderance of Power: Paul Nitze and the Cold War
James Graham Wilson. America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze & National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan (Ithaca, Cornell University Press) 336 pp., $32.95. Ten years ago, James Graham Wilson, a historian...
Why Russia’s Secret Foreign Policy Annex Matters
When examining the secret annex to the recently released Russian Foreign Policy Concept, many of my colleagues have zeroed in on the recommendations for how Russia ought to play a...