Alexander Cooley writes for the Valdai Discussion Club, “Though recent public opinion surveys find that 60% of Americans have confidence in Biden’s foreign policy, there are reasons to suspect that the US domestic environment will Read More
Dan has a brand new piece online at Foreign Affairs on why I’m extremely skeptical of the idea of “Great-Power Competition” as a strategic framework. Great powers compete. The relative decline of the United States means that other great Read More
Cooley and Nexon write for The National Interest: “Rather than reclaim global dominance by outspending and overpowering new contenders, U.S. planners should instead simply not contest many of Beijing’s and Moscow’s costly efforts to expand Read More
Alexander Cooley writes about China’s role in Central Asia and how “the region traditionally considered Russia’s ‘backyard’ has now become China’s frontline in its rise as a regional and global great power.”
We have a piece at The Monkey Cage on Trump’s decision – although it was still just a threat when the article initially came out – to pull funding from the World Health Organization. The U.S. Read More
The Lowy Institute has a nice visualization of the rapid rise of Chinese trade and its displacement of the United States as the most important global trading partner. Who dominates global trade? It is well Read More
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
On September 24, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. At the center of that inquiry lies an alleged effort by Trump to pressure Read More
The Trump administration’s selective ‘exit’ from the United Nations has left the door open for Beijing, which is using the opportunity to make international order safer for authoritarianism. As Kristine Lee writes in Foreign Affairs: Read More
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