The Folly of “Strategic Autonomy”
Forget Macron’s interviews and Trump’s tweets. Europe’s lack of consensus on China is shaping Transatlantic relations.
Published: 2019-11-27 15:48:49
Letter to Readers
The defining feature of the impeachment hearings has been an inability to agree on the contours of reality—which bodes ill for the future of liberal democracy. In the new print issue, Susan B. Glasser and David J. Kramer talk democracy in the age of Trump. Also in the issue: the China challenge, plus race, culture, and identity in America.
Published: 2019-11-26 11:58:34
When The Facts Change...
The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan deeply averse to nuclear weapons. Now, amid growing security concerns, it may abandon that aversion.
Published: 2019-11-22 11:30:04
Singapore the Improbable Part II
Capitalist para-democracy with Chinese characteristics? Non-socialist social corporatism? Illiberal-democratic liberalism? The characteristics that make Singapore improbable are themselves an improbable combination of characteristics.
Published: 2019-11-21 15:23:53