Kyiv does not want to incur Trump’s wrath, given that Trump could set back Ukraine’s war effort by abandoning it. (In his ...

Both had an outsize effect on U.S. history and grand strategy. There have been more than a dozen biographies of Kissinger, ...

Trump has been remarkably consistent over the years about his core economic gripe: the trade deficit. In 1987, he spent ...

Debating U.S. nuclear strategy.

The challenge in Asia is not a lack of cooperation, but a temptation to institutionalize cooperation faster than the region ...

A Response to "Dispensable Nation" ...

In this fascinating study, Kuipers argues that the logic of state building and nation building can, under some circumstances, collide. In stratified societies, creating a civil service through ...

Rico, an art historian and preservationist, argues that standard conceptions of what counts as “global heritage” eschew religious definitions of history and identity in favor of a secular ...

Drawing on interviews with policymakers, archival work, and novel data on decades of putative policy changes in the Middle East, Monroe explains protectionism in the Arab world has endured.

This book argues that in a region known largely for its fragile states and durable autocracies, Kuwait’s history of vigorous parliamentary politics has made it a salutary exception. From the ...

In his rich and persuasive account, Robinson traces the roots of civilizational theory to both Western and Russian philosophers of the twentieth century.

In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South Africa, where Jewish communities grappled with the local complexities of British imperialism and Zionism. Imber ...