Leonid Grinin (VCSR) and Andrey Korotayev (RSUH): Will the Global Crisis Lead to Global Transformations? The Coming Epoch of New Coalitions. A review of How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace by Charles A. Kupchan. The first chapter from Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order by G. John Ikenberry. The first chapter from Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft by Peter Trubowitz. An interview with Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of The Future of Power. Is the world too big to fail? Noam Chomsky on the contours of global order. A new trend in business writing focuses on how to rebuild the American economy and retain its superpower status amid growing anxiety over the rise of China. Relax, America: Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future. Forget China, look to Latin America: With inflation a concern in the Far East, commodity and consumer-driven economies like Brazil and Chile may be 2011's biggest winners. Exclusive new cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the UN. Learning to love change: Why America needs to end its obsession with stability. How close did the United States come to launching a war against Iran? The Islamic Republic of Talibanistan: Why the West should stop fighting with the Taliban for hearts and minds, and start letting the Islamists try their hand at governing. Echoes of the Soviet Surge: The West's war in Afghanistan increasingly resembles the Soviet Union's. Will a Middle Eastern oil disruption crush the economy? New research suggests the answer is no — and that a major tenet of American foreign policy may be fundamentally wrong. The Consequentialist: Ryan Lizza on Barack Obama’s shifting foreign policy.
