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"The Weakness of the Strongmen and The Price of American Authoritarianism."

Views expressed in this geopolitical news and analysis are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 02 January 2026, 1922 UTC.

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Russ Roberts (https://trendsingeopolitics.blogspot.com).

January/February 2026

Volume 105, Number 1

Essays

The Weakness of the Strongmen

What Really Threatens Authoritarians?

Stephen Kotkin

The Price of American Authoritarianism

What Can Reverse Democratic Decline?

Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt

The Illiberal International

Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order

Nic Cheeseman, Matías Bianchi, and Jennifer Cyr

How China Wins the Future

Beijing’s Strategy to Seize the New Frontiers of Power

Elizabeth Economy

China’s Long Economic War

How Beijing Builds Leverage for Indefinite Competition

Zongyuan Zoe Liu

The End of the Israel Exception

A New Paradigm for American Policy

Andrew P. Miller

The West’s Last Chance

How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late

Alexander Stubb

How to Survive in a Multialigned World

The Indian Way of Strategic Diversification

Tanvi Madan

Latin America’s Revolution of the Right

The Forces Remaking the Region in the Age of Trump

Brian Winter

The Allies After America

In Search of Plan B

Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin

How Europe Lost

Can the Continent Escape Its Trump Trap?

Matthias Matthijs and Nathalie Tocci

Reviews & Responses

The Fog of McNamara

An Anatomy of Failure in Vietnam

Fredrik Logevall

The Depopulation Panic

What Demographic Decline Really Means for the World

Jennifer D. Sciubba

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers

Letters to the Editor

The Dark Side of China’s Success

A Response to “The Real China Model”

The Illusion of Nuclear Deterrence

A Response to “Europe’s Bad Nuclear Options”

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