The Aspen Strategy Group's Policy Books is an annual series of pieces on the United States most pressing foreign policy and national…
This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2014 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop. On the occasion of the 30th year…
Who caused the Cold War? In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy downplayed the role of human agency in shaping events, writing that “a king is…
The rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk,…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And…
In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian…
Even as this paper was being written and edited, U.S.-Russian relations have warmed and chilled. Today, as we are about to go to press,…
When Foreign Policy first published my essay "Soft Power" in 1990, who would have expected that someday the term would be used by the likes…
Last month, the new president of China, Xi Jinping, chose to travel to Moscow for his first foreign visit. He and Russian President…
President Reagan stunned fellow citizens and the world 30 years ago this month with a dramatic announcement that the United States would…