Coercion could backfire. Although it will not always be China that benefits—many Asian countries hedge beyond the great ...

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. She is the former NATO Deputy ...

How to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.

In short, the Trump administration believes it has what game theorists call escalation dominance over China and any other ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

Unfortunately for Big Tech, such a war may be about to erupt. The Trump administration’s evident contempt for Europe may not ...

During Trump’s first administration, these goals were largely aspirational. He and his officials frequently invoked the ...

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...