About the Book
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Short Overview
While debates over Trumpism currently consume foreign-policy watchers, scholars of world politics generally focus on longer-term developments. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States faced no great-power peer competitors. It Read More
Great Power Challengers
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Is American Hegemony in Decline?
The debate over American relative decline can get pretty complicated. You can’t really sum the components of state power into some kind of aggregate, “total power” measure. Even if you could, it’s not clear how Read More
Exit from Below
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The Flirtation Between Manila and Moscow is a Sign of the Times
In The National Interest, Richard Javad Heydarian writes that: For the first time in its history, Manila is seeking Russian assistance to upgrade its defensive capabilities and, potentially, even develop its energy resources in the Read More
International Liberal Order
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There isn’t One Way of Doing Liberal International Order, and that Might be Cause for Alarm
Many discussions about the end of “liberal international order” play out in extremely stylized (one might even say “crude”) terms. Some treat liberal ordering as an all-or-nothing deal, in which the only alternatives are a Read More
