Power Problems

Embracing Multipolarity

Modeling War on the Korean Peninsula

A Regime Change War in Iran?

Do Madman Tactics Work?

Gen Z, Internationalism, & Change in Foreign Policy

Can Trump Make a Deal with Iran?

UFOs, Aliens, & National Security

Why America Needs to Change Its Nuclear Weapons Posture

India’s Quest for Major Power Status

Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War

The Return of Bipolarity

Reconsidering US Strategy in Europe & Asia

Trump, Conquest, & the Laws of War

The AI Competition with China

Perverse Incentives in the Permanent War Economy

Negotiating Peace in Ukraine

The Fall of Assad & Syria's Uncertain Future

How Not to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy in the Second Trump Term

The Trouble with Tariffs and the Future of Trade

Status, Revisionism, & US-China Relations

Is Whataboutism Effective?

Why Can't America Retrench?

Not Another Axis of Evil

The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb

The Rising Costs of Overseas Military Bases

Security Dilemmas, Great Powers, & International Order

Should America Let Europe Defend Itself?

Ukraine, NATO, and the End of the War

Why Security Assistance Fails

Classical Realism, Purpose, and the Rise of China

The Trouble with US Support for Israel & Ukraine

Drones, Secrecy, and Endless War

Regional "Push Factors" in the Emigration Upsurge

Reevaluating the "Special Relationship" with Israel

The Economics of Great Power War & Peace

The Hard Choice of Retrenchment

The Will to Hegemony

Elite Politics & the Hawkish Bias in US Foreign Policy

Managing Instability in Europe, Asia, & the Middle East

Arms, Influence, and the Military Industrial Complex

The Middle East Is a Powder Keg. Washington Is Making It Worse

The Economic War on China Is Self-Defeating

"Credibility" Is Not What You Think It Is

The Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr

Israel, Gaza, and America’s Broken Middle East Policy

America Is Eroding the International Order

Human Psychology and Nuclear Brinkmanship

Middling Powers & U.S. Decline

Can the “Restraint Coalition” Endure?