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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Jeffrey Ding |G. John Ikenberry
Ding explores how technological revolutions shape the rise and decline of great powers. Some states are better at taking advantage of breakthroughs than others. The United Kingdom did it in the First Industrial Revolution, in the eighteenth century. The United States pulled it off in the Second Industrial Revolution, in the nineteenth century, and again in the twentieth, leaping ahead of Japan in the information revolution.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Richard Seymour |G. John Ikenberry |James M. Lindsay
In this original and richly argued book, Seymour takes the reader into the dark and disturbing political and psychological underworld of apocalyptic right-wing nationalism. In recent decades, far-right parties and movements have grown in strength in Brazil, India, the Philippines, the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | G. John Ikenberry |David Lake |Joseph Nye |Martin Thomas
In This Review In This Review The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World OrderOwen makes a powerful case that the fate of American democracy hinges on the health and welfare of other democracies. One of the oldest insights in the liberal internationalist tradition, voiced by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and many others, is that democracies are most likely to survive and thrive in a world of open trade and multilateral rules where liberal democracies hold sway.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | David Lake |G. John Ikenberry |Joseph Nye |Martin Thomas
In This Review In This Review Indirect Rule: The Making of U.S. International HierarchyLake builds on his groundbreaking work on hierarchy in international relations to explore the historical foundations of the U.S.-led world order. For Lake, American power is best seen as a form of indirect rule: bargains struck between a dominant state and elites in subordinate countries.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Martin Thomas |G. John Ikenberry |David Lake |Joseph Nye
In This Review In This Review The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of DecolonizationIn this ambitious and sweeping study, Thomas tells the grand story of the end of European empires and the struggle for decolonization. This drama played out in different times and places across Africa, Asia, and Latin America between World War I and the 1970s. Thomas argues that decolonization was pushed forward by the forces of globalization.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Joseph Nye |G. John Ikenberry |David Lake |Jr. Polity
In This Review In This Review A Life in the American CenturyNye is best known for his theory of “soft power,” which explains why a country’s ideas, institutions, and habits of cooperation can be as important in shaping the behavior of other states as the use of “hard power,” such as military force, threats, and sanctions. In this deft memoir, Nye shows how his experiences in academia and policymaking illuminate the inner workings of American power—both hard and soft.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Van Jackson |G. John Ikenberry |Tom Wheeler |Fareed Zakaria
In This Review In This Review Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive WorldmakingJackson helpfully maps the ideas of left-wing thinkers in debates over U.S. foreign policy. What unites these progressive critiques is the belief that the United States, guided by an old-style liberal internationalist vision, has failed to use its power to build a more peaceful, democratic, and egalitarian world.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Tom Wheeler |G. John Ikenberry |Van Jackson |Fareed Zakaria
In This Review In This Review Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age? Likening today’s digital revolution to the late-nineteenth-century Gilded Age of unregulated capitalism, Wheeler makes a powerful case for U.S. government action to set rules that protect the public interest. In both eras, American society has grappled with technology-enabled corporate giants that acquired huge windfalls of wealth and private power.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Alexandre Lefebvre |G. John Ikenberry |Tom Wheeler |Van Jackson
In This Review In This Review Liberalism as a Way of LifeIn this spirited defense of liberalism, Lefebvre celebrates the ordinary, everyday virtues of life in a free and open society. Most people define liberalism by its core institutions, such as individual rights, the rule of law, separation of powers, free elections, and open markets.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Steven Levitsky |Daniel Crown |Daniel Ziblatt |G. John Ikenberry
In This Review In This Review Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking PointWhy has American democracy come so close to a breaking point while other Western democracies appear more stable? In this sobering study, Levitsky and Ziblatt blame the United States’ eighteenth-century constitutional order for its modern democratic woes.
