Sociocultural evolution

Made in America

Carl J. Schramm | Apr 20, 2010

America still retains its innovative edge over China and India. But as long as Washington continues to handpick winners and losers, our preeminence is in jeopardy.

Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

Continental Drifts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Mar 02, 2009

America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.

Empire Falls

Robert A. Pape | Jan 22, 2009

The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

A Sit-Down with Brent Scowcroft

Justine A. Rosenthal | Jan 21, 2009

The principles of transformationalism—idealism spread by the barrel of a gun—have been central to America’s foreign-policy failings over the last eight years. With a new leadership in power, Washington has a chance to right past wrongs. But that w

Voting Blind

Justine A. Rosenthal

Dimitri K. Simes

| Sep 03, 2008

John McCain and Barack Obama are busily offering foreign-policy platitudes on the campaign trail, mostly about spreading freedom, working with allies and hunting down terrorists. But what exactly would they do if elected? Digging ourselves out of

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