MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN

1 week ago | energypolicy.columbia.edu | Jason Bordoff |Eyal Hulata |Richard Nephew |MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Elizabeth Saunders

On the night of June 12, the Israeli military conducted widespread strikes on sites in Iran that targeted the country’s nuclear program and its senior military leadership. This attack, and subsequent retaliation by Iran, has set off an unprecedented exchange of intense missile strikes between Iran and Israel, which risks escalating into a larger regional conflict.

Mar 4, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Michael Albertus |Jason Bordoff |MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Elizabeth Buchanan

Since the mid-twentieth century, the power dynamics and system of alliances that made up the postwar global order provided a strong check on campaigns to conquer and acquire territory—an otherwise enduring feature of human history. But rather than marking a definitive break from the aggression of the past, this era of relative restraint now seems to have been merely a brief deviation from the historical pattern.

Mar 4, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Michael Albertus |Jason Bordoff |MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Elizabeth Buchanan

Since the mid-twentieth century, the power dynamics and system of alliances that made up the postwar global order provided a strong check on campaigns to conquer and acquire territory—an otherwise enduring feature of human history. But rather than marking a definitive break from the aggression of the past, this era of relative restraint now seems to have been merely a brief deviation from the historical pattern.

Jun 18, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Jason Bordoff July |Jason Bordoff

The clean energy transition has reached adolescence. Its future direction is not yet set, and in the meantime, its internal paradoxes make for a volatile mix. Political leaders fret that ambitious steps to address climate change will aggravate geopolitical problems in a world already troubled by wars and humanitarian crises.

Jun 17, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | David H. Petraeus |MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN |Richard Fontaine |A Partner

The term “regime change” has fallen out of favor in the past two decades, and it is not a term that Israelis use to describe the war they are waging in Gaza. But regime change is precisely what Israel is seeking. Its military operation in Gaza aims to destroy Hamas as a political and military entity and eliminate the de facto government the group has overseen for nearly two decades.