Skip to page content

Globalization

Russia
commentary
Wake-Up Call for Russia
William Courtney @courtneywmh
Mar 9, 2020
The Hill
Deteriorating living standards have put Russians on edge, and fears of economic stagnation have risen. Russia has the capacity to do better. So why is the economy stagnating?
Read More »

United States
commentary
Power and Legitimacy Go Hand in Hand
Michael J. Mazarr @MMazarr
Feb 21, 2020
Lowy Institute's Interpreter
The United States has a truly distinct approach to power which has made all the difference in the post-war world. We abandon it at our peril.
Read More »
China
commentary
The Real U.S.-China Competition: Theories of Influence
Michael J. Mazarr @MMazarr, Ali Wyne
Jan 29, 2020
Lowy Institute's Interpreter
Strategic competition between the United States and China has come to dominate U.S. foreign policy debates. That competition is multifaceted, but it may turn on a basic question: Which country has a more sustainable concept of national influence?
Read More »
China
commentary
China's Footprint in Europe
Ali Wyne, Scott W. Harold @ScottWHarold
Jan 13, 2020
ChinaFile
Tensions between Washington and Brussels may be helping China find a more receptive audience for its Belt and Road initiative. One of the central challenges for the United States and Europe will be to forge a more united approach to China's resurgence.
Read More »
China
commentary
A New Phase in Middle-Power Adjustment to U.S.–China Competition?
Ali Wyne, Bonnie S Glaser
Nov 5, 2019
The National Interest
Observers of world order focus inordinately on intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China. Less examined, but no less important, is how their competition is affecting geopolitics outside of the two countries.
Read More »
International Economic Relations
commentary
The Emerging U.S.–China Strategic Competition and the Role of Trans-Atlantic Cooperation
Scott W. Harold @ScottWHarold
Oct 8, 2019
Institut Montaigne
When competing with China, what role should U.S. alliances, especially the transatlantic relationships the United States has with its European partners, play? This question is potentially decisive for whether or not any strategy adopted by the U.S. to compete with China will succeed or fail.
Read More »
China
commentary
The China Dream: Never Closer, yet Never More Elusive
Timothy R. Heath
Oct 1, 2019
The Hill
To achieve its goals of national rejuvenation, China needs to become a true world power. But a softening economy and political gridlock make it seem less and less likely that Beijing will realize all of its objectives.
Read More »
China
commentary
How Not to Confront China
Ali Wyne, James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins
Sep 23, 2019
The National Interest
There are several key reasons why current U.S. policy toward China may not help advance America's competitiveness or enlist much support abroad. Most notably, the administration has yet to explain what it ultimately hopes to accomplish.
Read More »
China
commentary
Beyond Hawks and Doves: A Better Way to Debate U.S.–China Policy
Ali Wyne
Sep 20, 2019
China File
The best long-term outcome for U.S.–China relations may be one in which inexorably intensifying competition coexists with occasionally fruitful cooperation. It is not the most inspiring result, to be sure, but it is preferable to unconstrained antagonism.
Read More »
United States
commentary
Time to Return to the Basics of Statecraft
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins
Sep 4, 2019
The Wall Street Journal
After two decades of setbacks abroad, it's time to ask whether the decline in American influence is irreversible. Ultimately, neither China nor Russia is responsible for these difficulties. Washington's failures have been self-inflicted, the result of flawed policy rather than any decisive shift in the global balance of power.
Read More »
Elementary Education
blog
Theresa May, Emotional Learning, Teachers: RAND Weekly Recap
May 31, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on Theresa May's resignation, social and emotional learning, the value of a good teacher, and more.
Read More »
International Diplomacy
commentary
This Is Not a Great-Power Competition
Michael J. Mazarr @MMazarr
May 29, 2019
Foreign Affairs
The emerging conventional wisdom among foreign policy analysts in Washington is that a new era of great-power competition is upon us. But does that phrase really capture today's reality?
Read More »
International Diplomacy
commentary
What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Us About Dealing with Contemporary Russia
Raphael S. Cohen, James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins
May 13, 2019
Lawfare
Politics loves its historical analogies and today, perhaps, there is no more common a comparison to the Trump presidency than the Reagan administration. Reagan's tenure was marked by his successful competition with the Soviet Union. Does Reagan provide a blueprint for triumphing over modern Russia?
Read More »
Russia
commentary
Russia Chooses Paupers as Partners, with Questionable Benefit
William Courtney @courtneywmh, Howard J. Shatz @HowardJShatz
Feb 14, 2019
Newsweek
By leveraging the efficiencies of globalization and cultivating ties with prosperous partners, Russia could increase its economic potential and improve living standards for its people. And by engaging more positively with the world, it could gain influence in the forums that matter, such as the G20 and multilateral institutions.
Read More »
Globalization
commentary
The Need to Think More Clearly About 'Great-Power Competition'
Ali Wyne
Feb 11, 2019
The National Interest
Today's world order is increasingly defined by competition between the United States and a host of major powers, especially China and Russia. Who is America's principal competitor and over what is it competing? What is America’s ultimate objective? And how will it prepare its economy and its society for infinite competition of an indefinite nature?
Read More »
Globalization
commentary
Questioning the Presumption of a U.S.-China Power Transition
Ali Wyne
Jan 9, 2019
The Diplomat
The United States occupies the central role in a world order that, while under growing duress, remains a central organizing framework in world affairs. There are many trajectories along which U.S.-China relations might evolve if China aims to displace the United States for global pre-eminence.
Read More »

Page 1 of 5

1