When people think about the risks of mixing AI and armed forces, their thoughts often drift to one famous film franchise: the Terminator. Its premise is simple. American scientists invent a ...

The erosion of those countries’ industrial capacity ultimately weakens their ability to compete with and resist China economically, diplomatically, and militarily. And the United States cannot win a ...

The Chinese call these abandoned structures lanwei lou, a phrase that literally means “rotten-tail buildings,” signifying a project gone awry, a plan in suspension. The inhabitants of rotten-tail ...

Over the past decade, there has been a growing consensus that democracies around the world are facing a crisis from within. According to a 2025 Pew survey, nearly 60 percent of respondents in 23 ...

Singularly focused on the need to prevent another 9/11, Bush’s modest approach to world affairs morphed into the so-called global war on terror that became the primary paradigm for U.S. foreign policy ...

The Middle East has oil, China has rare-earth elements,” Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared in the early 1990s. This quote has been repeated a lot lately as Beijing has used its near monopoly on ...

France has a lame-duck president, is toiling under a hung parliament, and faces the possibility of a far-right victory in the next election. Based largely on the author’s reporting, this book offers a ...

This 50th anniversary edition of Shivji's book includes a new introduction that surveys the changes in Tanzanian politics and society.

In her concise and highly readable book, Notte, an international relations scholar, describes Russia’s resilience in the face of Western efforts to starve its economy through sanctions, as well as ...

In this ambitious review of Latin American governance, Dayton-Johnson challenges the pessimists who see only unfulfilled promises in the region’s economic record. He concedes that the region has ...

Two engaging new books examine the motives behind the creation of the Pan-American Highway—a 19,000-mile road network stretching from Alaska to Argentina—and why its final stretch, the Darién Gap ...

Glaude, Fisher, and Luo convincingly show that virulent white racism has been a constant and often ignored through line in American history.