U.S. Grand Strategy
Winning the Tech Race: Why American CEOs Must Lead, Not Follow
The summer of 2024 is making a run for one of the most tumultuous in American political and stock market history. One presidential candidate dramatically stepped down, another barely dodged...
Toward a New Pax Americana
The Pax Americana that has prevailed over world affairs since the end of World War II is dead, if not actually buried. It must now be replaced. The two remaining...
PODCAST: Are We in a New Cold War? (w/ Dan Negrea)
In this episode, Jacob Heilbrunn speaks with Dan Negrea, the Senior Director of the Freedom and Prosperity Center at the Atlantic Council and coauthor with Matthew Kroenig of the new...
The Man Whispering the Middle East’s Future into Washington’s Ear
Washington, DC has no shortage of foreign policy strategists. Think tanks from K Street to Arlington continuously pump out a wide assortment of articles, white papers, and studies authored by...
The Widening Willpower Gap
On an unusually warm October day in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took center stage to dedicate the new Outer Drive Bridge in Chicago. As Roosevelt spoke, Benito Mussolini’s Italy...
Is the U.S. Distracted from East Asia?
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have captured international media attention. In the past, such “international crises” have pressured U.S. presidents to “do something” about them. President Joe...
America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Weakness: No Grand Strategy
As 2024 begins, the global threat to American interests is on the rise as the interests of adversaries continue to align. However, Washington policymakers appear either unable or uninterested in...
Sino-American Competition, Global Strategy, and the Place of the Middle East
Great power competition over the Middle East is as old as history, as testified by the imperial ruins and lines on maps left over millennia. They are monuments to how...
America Is An Overstretched Superpower
Joe Biden, in concert with American public opinion, soured on the long U.S. military disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and finally withdrew U.S. forces from the two-decade disaster in Afghanistan,...
Aid to Ukraine and Israel is Connected
President Joe Biden’s October 20 speech tying together support for Ukraine and Israel as a battle for the fate of democracy is spot on. The war in Ukraine, like the...
What History, China, and Culture Tell Us About Ending the Ukraine War
Historically positioned as a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe, Ukraine has repeatedly been trapped in geopolitical power struggles. Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea harkens back to Cold War dynamics,...
Biden’s Wilsonian Errs: America Needs a Pragmatist, Not a Preacher
From proclamations that “America is back” to promises of “relentless diplomacy,” President Joe Biden’s foreign policy framework sounds decisively Wilsonian. By centering his foreign policy on restoration—of treaty alliances, trade...