Memo to Trump: Beware the ‘Reverse Teddy’
I was proud to serve the president in his first term. But Trump’s strength in the Western Hemisphere could portend weakness in Europe and Asia in his second, writes Matt Pottinger.
Leninism
Yes, Xi Jinping is a dictator, and he should be proud of it
What’s Xi Jinping getting his knickers in a knot about? Was it a diplomatic faux pas for President Biden to call him — at a campaign fundraiser — a “dictator”? Of course. Was...
Op-eds
The fantasy of multipolarity
It would lead to brave new world order dominated by Chinese Communists
Op-eds
The new – or perhaps renewed – Cold War
You can’t win it if you don’t know you’re in it
Op-eds
The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to America
Congressional Testimonies
Protecting Americans’ Private Information from Hostile Foreign Powers
Congressional Testimonies
Beijing’s American Hustle
How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
Op-eds
The end of the rules-based order?
China’s rulers have a new and unimproved version
Op-eds
Who killed Lokman Slim?
We know. The question is what will we do about it?
Op-eds
Study war some more
World War II and the Cold War carry useful lessons
Op-eds
Midterm Assessment
The Trump Administration's Foreign and National Security Policies
Monographs
Came the revolution
My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Our Man in Havana
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Deadly Ambitions
We break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this disturbing news: Turkey, a vital NATO ally, is teetering on the brink of civil war. Dormant for more than two years thanks to a...
Op-eds
The Politics of Genocide
Spring is a season for black memories. April 24 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. April 27 was Yom HaShoah, a day for Holocaust remembrance. The Rwandan Genocide, in which Hu...
Op-eds
Vladimir Putin, the Neo-Soviet Man
Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Great Gamble
Something quite extraordinary -- perhaps even historic -- is afoot in Turkey. The country's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is engaged in a colossal roll of the political dice, an act...
Op-eds
Oliver Stone’s Party Line
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
Op-eds
What’s Islam Got to Do with It?
To prohibit the question is to invite disaster.