Realism

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...

The new president seems to implicitly grasp two core lessons from Machiavelli’s writing: the difficulty of fundamental change, and the need to strike quickly against his enemies.

Robert Warren Tucker, the distinguished scholar of American foreign policy and international relations, died of natural causes on February 7, 2025. He was 100 years old. Robert Warren Tucker, the...

The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy Carter’s four-year presidency was a low point in a decent man’s century-long life. In fact, the implicit...

President-elect Trump believes that the United States has no important interests in Syria, or so he tweeted last week. This announcement has strengthened the view of some in the restraint...

Donald Trump will assume office again amid rising tensions in Ukraine and U.S. troop deployments to Israel. This worries many Trump detractors, and the president knows this. “They said, ‘He...

As the United States and its allies attempt to steer a new diplomatic course in Africa amid intensifying geopolitical competition with China and Russia, the idea has steadily gained ground...

The Trump administration’s greatest achievements were in foreign policy. Though manifested by presidential gut instinct, rather than bureaucratic mastery, ‘America First’ as practiced was the appropriate response to America’s shrinking...

Sumantra Maitra. The Sources of Russian Aggression: Is Russia a Realist Power? (Lanham, Lexington Books) 234 pp., $110.00, Hardcover. $45.00, Ebook.    Ten years ago, the borders of Eastern Europe shifted...

The depiction of Russia as an inescapable enemy is a dangerous narrative that will only undermine the long-term interests of the United States and the West by fostering permanent strategic...

It’s time to go back to Jackson. That is the message of former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien (who is regularly referred to as Donald Trump’s “shadow secretary of...

In a world marked by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, is the age of soft power over? Thirty years ago, with the end of the Soviet Union, increasing integration in...