Browse Review Essays | Foreign Affairs

Skip to main content

Foreign Affairs Magazine Homepage

Explore Subscribe

All Articles
Books & Reviews
Podcast
Anthologies
Audio Content
Author Directory
This Day in History
Events

War in Ukraine
U.S. Foreign Policy
Xi Jinping
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
Artificial Intelligence
Climate Change
Geopolitics
Israel-Hamas War
Biden Administration
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Globalization
U.S.-Chinese Relations
Hamas
Hezbollah

Ukraine
Russia
China
Iran
Iraq
Israel
India
North Korea
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
United States
Turkey
Palestinian Territories
View All Regions

Essays
Snapshots
Capsule Reviews
Review Essays
Ask the Experts
Reading Lists
Interviews
Responses

1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s

Newsletters
Customer Service
Frequently Asked Questions
Subscriber Resources
Feedback
Group Subscriptions
Gift a Subscription
Contact
Advertise

Follow Us

Foreign Affairs Magazine Homepage

Explore My Account Sign In

Current Issue
Archive
Books & Reviews
Podcast
Newsletters

Subscribe Sign in

The Choice

Good Fences Make Good Politics

Eye of the Tiger: What Jiang Zemin Tells Us About China

Better and Better

James Surowiecki

Can Economists Learn?

Alan S. Blinder

Crisis in the Caucasus: A New Look at Russia's Chechen Impasse

To Kill a Democracy

Krithika Varagur

Veiled Truths

Niall Ferguson

The Antiliberal Revolution

How Democracies Live

Europe’s Ugly Future

Andrew Moravcsik

We Didn’t Start the Fire

The World According to Henry

Paving the Road to Hell: The Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping

Small War, Big Consequences

Donald R. Hickey

Government, Geography, and Growth

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Evil Empires?

Making Some Noise for God

Maria Clara Bingemer

Bean Counters to the Rescue

The Persistence of Arab Anti-Americanism

Putting It Together: The Foibles and Future of the European Union

Barry Eichengreen

Tortured Souls

Antonio Taguba, Scott Cooper

Occupational Hazards

El mito de la guerra étnica

Whither Political Islam?

Mahmood Mamdani

The Best and the Brightest

John Mearsheimer

In Praise of Lesser Evils

The End of Churchillmania?

An Elegy for Journalism?

Through Our Friends' Eyes

Walter Russell Mead

Rethinking the Nation-State: The Many Meanings of Sovereignty

Dreams of Westphalia

Suzanne Maloney

Dmitri Trenin

Public and Private Eyes

Jennifer Daskal

How to Think Like Edmund Burke

Iain Hampsher-Monk

A War to Start All Wars

The Good Germans

More Data, More Problems

Bhaskar Chakravorti

The Meddlers

Muslim Brothers

How Should Governments Address Inequality?

Melissa S. Kearney

The Leaning Tower of Babel

Runaway Diseases: And the Human Hand behind Them

The Postcolonial Cold War

Born in the Bloodlands

Michael Kimmage

Lyndon Johnson and Foreign Policy

All Powers Great and Small

Shivshankar Menon

The First Cold War

Deborah R. Coen

Nations without Borders: The Gifts of Folk Gone Abroad

The Nuclear Option

Michael Shellenberger

The Torture Blame Game

Tales of the Desert

Holier Than Thou

An American Skeptic In Europe

See No Evil: Why America Doesn't Stop Genocide

The New Way of War?

The Spirit of Capitalism

Robert J. Samuelson

The Ghosts of Kennan

Fredrik Logevall

Trotskyism to Anachronism

How to Be a Jew  in France

Lisa Moses Leff

Globalization in Your Face: A New Book Humanizes Global Captialism

Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Grading the War on Terrorism

Richard A. Falkenrath

All the President's Acumen: The Paradox of Nixon's Foreign Policy

David C. Hendrickson

Despotism In Brussels? Misreading the European Union

Andrew Moravcsik

Unmerited

Nicholas Lemann

Political Islam After the Arab Spring

The Unanswered Question: Attempting to Explain the Rwandan Genocide

Interdependency Theory

The Grand Bargain: A New Book Demystifies European Integration

Patrick McCarthy

Class and the Classroom

George Scialabba

The Goldhagen Controversy: One Nation, One People, One Theory?

The Trouble With the “Working Hypothesis”

James K. Galbraith

Africa's Ailing Giant: Chaos Reigns in Nigeria

Deterring Cyberattacks

Susan Hennessey

Classic Diplomacy in the Information Age

Stanley Hoffmann

The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin

Danger and Survival

Gregory F. Treverton

When Empires End

The Myanmar Mirage

Sebastian Strangio

Secularism and Its Discontents

An American in Cairo

India and Ideology

Tito's Last Secret

Is India’s Rise Inevitable?

A Selective Partnership

The Crusade for Free Trade: Evaluating Clinton's International Economic Policy

Jeffrey A. Frankel

Spies Like Us

Terror and the Law

Curtis A. Bradley

Keeping the World at Bay

The Turmoil Within

James P. Piscatori

Castlereagh's Catechism

Capital Punishment

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Anonymous No More

Ralph Bunche

Stanley Hoffmann

When Progressives Were on the March

James E. Cronin

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

The Stories China Tells

Jessica Chen Weiss

Can't Buy Me Love

Get the Magazine

Save up to 55%

on Foreign Affairs!

Foreign Affairs

Weekly Newsletter

Get in-depth analysis delivered right to your inbox

About Us Staff Work at Foreign Affairs Events Podcast

Frequently Asked Questions Customer Service Contact Us Submissions Permissions Advertise Press Center Leave Us Feedback

Subscriptions Group Subscriptions Give a Gift Donate Download iOS App Download Android App Newsletters

Graduate School Forum

From the publishers of Foreign Affairs

Cyber Week in Review: October 18, 2024

Kat Duffy

Election 2024: Is the United States Ready to Confront the Axis of Autocracies?

James M. Lindsay

Where is the Lebanese Zelensky, Part II

Elliott Abrams

Council on Foreign Relations

From the
publishers of
Foreign Affairs

Cyber Week in Review: October 18, 2024

Kat Duffy

Election 2024: Is the United States Ready to Confront the Axis of Autocracies?

Author:James M. Lindsay

Where is the Lebanese Zelensky, Part II

Author:Elliott Abrams

Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

Privacy Policy Terms of Use

©2024 Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. All Rights Reserved.