FOREIGN AFFAIRS | Published by The Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.

 

May/June 2025

Volume 104, Number 3

Essays

The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition

Trump’s New Spheres of Influence

Stacie E. Goddard

The Return of Great-Power Diplomacy

How Strategic Dealmaking Can Fortify American Power

A. Wess Mitchell

The Russia That Putin Made

Moscow, the West, and Coexistence Without Illusion

Alexander Gabuev

The Once and Future China

How Will Change Come to Beijing?

Rana Mitter

Underestimating China

Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages

Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi

Order Without America

How the International System Can Survive a Hostile Washington

Ngaire Woods

The Post-Neoliberal Imperative

Contesting the Next Economic Paradigm

Jennifer M. Harris

The Age of Forever Wars

Why Military Strategy No Longer Delivers Victory

Lawrence D. Freedman

The Conventional Balance of Terror

America Needs a New Triad to Restore Its Eroding Deterrence

Andrew S. Lim and James D. Fearon

The Empty Arsenal of Democracy

How America Can Build a New Defense Industrial Base

Michael Brown

The Narrow Path to a New Middle East

A Regional Order to Contain Iran for Good

Dana Stroul

Reviews & Responses

Why They Fight

What’s at Stake in the Blame Game Over Ukraine

M. E. Sarotte

Works in Progress

Yesterday’s Economic Thinking Can’t Solve Today’s Economic Problems

Cecilia Elena Rouse

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers

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