How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises: A Conversation With Daron Acemoglu
The world has reached various inflection points, or so we are often told. Advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, promises to transform our way of life. In geopolitics, the growing compe...
18 Dec 202558min
The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trump’s Strategy: A Conversation With Kori Schake
Last week, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. Such documents are usually fairly staid exercises in lofty rhetoric. Not this one. It harshly rebukes the strategies of pri...
11 Dec 202542min
America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order: A Conversation With Emma Ashford
In the last decade, American foreign policymakers have been forced to reckon with a shifting global balance of power. Theorists have long argued over the shape of international order. But such questio...
4 Dec 202551min
The Limits of the American Way of AI: A Conversation With Ben Buchanan
In the last few years, artificial intelligence has become a central focus of geopolitical competition, and especially of U.S.-Chinese rivalry. For much of that time, the United States, or at least U.S...
27 Nov 202554min
The Age-Old Contest Between Land and Sea: A Conversation With S. C. M. Paine
Members of the foreign policy world have talked a lot about great-power competition over the last decade. But no one can entirely agree on the contours of today’s competition. Whether it’s a battle of...
20 Nov 202533min
The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy: A Conversation With Robert O’Brien
Robert O’Brien served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. O’Brien’s predecessors in that position left the administration to become some of the most vociferous critics of th...
13 Nov 20251h 6min
Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice: A Conversation With Orville Schell
Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may have brought a respite in the trade war. But it hardly touched the more fundamental drivers of U.S.-Chinese rivalry, a rivalry that has come...
6 Nov 202556min
The Crack-Up of American Democracy: A Conversation With Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
If one thing can be said to characterize the first months of Donald Trump’s second term, it is his expansive and often norm-breaking use of presidential power, both abroad and at home. There are the l...
30 Okt 202557min
