On October 8, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group returned to the United States after 320 days at sea. The deployment—a near record for the modern American military—had become ...

Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic thinking over the past year ...

Indeed, the United States still needs to respond to peer nuclear threats from China and Russia. Because both have missile systems that can carry nuclear and conventional payloads, the United States ...

Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of Radical Democracy,” Hari Ramesh argues that even when powerful groups dominate a country, oppressed groups can harness the government’s power toward their own ends ...

Along with providing safe haven, refugee camps can also become petri dishes for states to experiment with new technologies of surveillance and control. Hanno Brankamp, a political geographer, explores ...

U.S. Industrial Policy From Hamilton to Trump, Marco R. Di Tommaso and Vinod K. Aggarwal make the case that government interventions have always been central to the development of the U.S. economy.

Century Tyrant, Robert C. Austin and Artan R. Hoxha offer the conclusive biography of Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1944 to 1985.

The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit and whether risks can be managed. In 1957, following the Soviet Sputnik launch, U.

How Trump Voters Seized the Party From Republican Leaders, Seth Masket, a political scientist, conducted extensive interviews and surveys throughout 2021 and 2024 with the Republican officials ...

Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and U.S. Policy in the Asia-Pacific, 1898–1972, Giuseppe Paparella sets out to explain how American presidents’ nationalist belief systems have shaped foreign policy ...

An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown is an accessible and breezy explainer on international trade and commercial conflict.

A high-level debate on the Chinese and global economy, carried out by Mike Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president and former U.S. trade representative, and Nicholas Lardy, an expert on the ...