A new era of great-power competition is upon us. That, at least, is the emerging conventional wisdom among foreign policy analysts in Washington. Both the 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS) and the ...

The Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS) asserted that “great power competition” had returned “after being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century.” Notably, the ...

There is broad agreement today that the United States has entered a period of strategic competition with China. Great power rivalry is back, after a supposed post-Cold War hiatus. But how does great ...

If there’s one thing Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on, it’s China. Four times already, Biden has broken America’s commitment to strategic ambiguity, saying the U.S. would defend Taiwan if attacked ...

In his mid-July speech, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for an end to “the old paradigm of blind engagement” characterizing U.S. China policy for the last five decades. Pompeo’s speech reflected ...

THE STRATEGIC choices we will face after the war in Ukraine ends will depend on when it ends and how it ends. Nonetheless, we can estimate the major challenges to American interests and values and how ...

Will great power competition end up eating U.S. foreign policy? A new Foreign Affairs article by Dr. Daniel Nexon of Georgetown University makes the case that “great power competition” as U.S. grand ...