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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Diana Roy |Michelle Gavin |Aroop Mukharji |Michael Kimmage
U.S. President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last few decades, only a smattering of quirky historians and cult devotees have paid much attention to him. But in repeated comments over the last several years, including in his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump has brought McKinley back into the spotlight.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Liana Fix |Ebenezer Obadare |Michael Kimmage |Hal Brands
Since its founding in 1922, has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading international affairs experts.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Hal Brands |Michael Kimmage |Steven Levitsky |Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Donald Trump has already transformed the American political order. Not since Ronald Reagan has a president so dominated the national landscape or shifted its ideological terrain. In his second term, Trump could reshape global order in ways no less profound. Today’s reigning, U.S.-led international system—call it Pax Americana, the liberal order, or the rules-based international order—arose from a brutal Eurasian century.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Steven Levitsky |Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon
In the two decades that followed the Cold War’s end, globalism gained ground over nationalism. Simultaneously, the rise of increasingly complex systems and networks—institutional, financial, and technological—overshadowed the role of the individual in politics. But in the early 2010s, a profound shift began. By learning to harness the tools of this century, a cadre of charismatic figures revived the archetypes of the previous one: the strong leader, the great nation, the proud civilization.
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2 months ago | 
wilsoncenter.org | Maxim Trudolyubov |Izabella Tabarovsky |Michael Kimmage |William E. Pomeranz
In Moscow, life continues with an air of striking normalcy. US President Donald Trump’s calls to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian war do not evoke urgency or a rush to compromise. Instead, the Kremlin and Russia’s elites see an opportunity in Trump’s push for a settlement—one that allows them to maximize their gains while he remains preoccupied with reshaping US foreign policy and as America’s allies appear uncertain and fatigued.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
tagesspiegel.de | Michael Kimmage
© REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR Fast 1000 Tage Krieg in der Ukraine – und ein Ende der Kämpfe ist nicht in Sicht. Dennoch gibt es Grund zur Hoffnung. Ein Gastbeitrag von Michael Kimmage Heute, 10:39 UhrDer Krieg in der Ukraine ist ein langer Krieg geworden. Er brachte Überraschungen mit sich, wie die massive Invasion Russlands im Februar 2022. Die Verteidigung Kiews. Die ukrainischen Vorstöße im Herbst 2022. Die Meuterei von Prigoschin, dem damals mächtigen Chef der russischen Wagner-Söldner, im Sommer 2023.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Hanna Notte
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was an event of global magnitude. The scale of the invasion, commensurate with its goal of eliminating Ukrainian statehood, was massive. Millions of refugees fled Ukraine into the rest of Europe. Fuel and fertilizer prices shot up, stimulating inflation worldwide. The war disrupted the production and distribution of grain, generating concerns about supply far afield from Russia and Ukraine.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Lawrence Freedman |Jim Sciutto |Timothy W. Ryback
Kimmage, a historian and former State Department staffer, describes the twisting road from the end of the Cold War, when many observers hoped for a more peaceful and democratic world, to the current dire state of relations between Russia and the West.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Maria Lipman
In late 2022, a Moscow court sentenced the Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years behind bars. He was a prominent and outspoken member of the Russian opposition and an ally of Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny, prominent opposition figures who both met untimely deaths. Had he not been freed in last month’s prisoner swap with the United States, Yashin, too, might have met an untimely death. Now exiled in Berlin, he can do his political work unimpeded. Yashin did not want to leave Russia.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Michael Kimmage
By Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 12:13This article is in your queue. As summer turns to fall, the news from Ukraine has been harrowing. Across the country, Russia has been attacking civilian targets, destroying residential buildings, schools and hospitals. Russia has been steadily degrading Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, ensuring that Ukrainians have a very hard winter ahead of them. In the next few months, fresh waves of Ukrainian refugees could well be pouring into Europe.
