August 2026
Commentary
China and America – Are Cooperation and Competition Both Possible? by Robert Pearson
Trying to Get Russia Right by Thomas Graham
The Widening Atlantic by Robert Cox and Kees Rietveld
Thirty Years On, the Middle East Churns in a Turbulent World by Barbara Leaf
The Global South: Thirty Years and Counting by Charles Ray
The Struggle to Move from Anarchy to a Rules-Based International System by Edward Marks
Diplomacy after Wars by Raymond F. Smith
Eyewitness
A Personal Appeal to the Secretary to Honor the US Foreign Service by Kenneth M. Quinn
The Student Corner
Sino-European Relations Amid a Transatlantic Breakdown by Andrew Pruden
American Foreign Service Association
Currents on the Water: Thirty Years That Remade the Foreign Service by Lisa Heller
Links
Charles Kupchan tries to articulate a foreign policy course that moves away from the interventionism of the past several decades without moving too far toward an equally irresponsible isolationism.
Wasay Mir identifies three possible futures for the Strait of Hormuz, none of them preferable to the state that existed prior to the US administration’s launch of the war on Iran.
The Three Futures of the Strait of Hormuz
An interesting collection of (mostly) Ukrainian perspectives on the dismissal of Defense Minister Fedorov.
The Fedorov Dismissal: On Trust, Technology, and Turnover
From Our Archives
We’ve selected from our archives articles that we’ve published previously by several of the current issue’s authors.
Europe at War [May 2025] by Robert Cox
Aligning Venus and Mars: Striking the Appropriate Balance Between Diplomacy and Defense in International Affairs [August 2020] by Charles Ray
Getting Russia Right [November 2023] Review by Louis Sell
When AnarchySpills Across Borders [August 2021] by Edward Marks and Marshall Adair
Colin Powell’s Legacy [November 2021] by Robert Pearson