Trump 2.0
Ian Bremmer is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm, as well as GZERO Media, a company dedicated to helping a broad, global audience make sense of international affairs. You may follow him on X @ianbremmer. What Donald Trump’s Return Would Mean for the World What if […]
How the Military – Industrial Complex and the Neocons Keep America Losing
Erik D. Prince is a former Navy SEAL officer and the founder of private military company Blackwater. You may follow him on X @realErikDPrince. An earlier version of this essay was published by IM—1776, a magazine of cultural and political analysis, and has been edited and adapted with the permission of the author.
A Decade of U.S. Disjuncture
George Friedman is Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures. The insights presented in this essay are partly drawn from the author’s 2020 book The Storm Before the Calm. You may follow him on X @George_Friedman.
American National Security Policy and the 2024 Election
Dov S. Zakheim is Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, having formerly served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration and an Under Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration. You may follow him on X @dzakheim.
America’s Ukraine Test
Matthew Kaminski is Founding Editor of Politico Europe, which he managed from its launch in 2015 through 2018, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Politico in Washington, having led the publication from 2019 to 2023. Currently its Editor-at-Large, he writes a column on global affairs. He previously worked for the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal in Kyiv, Brussels, Paris and New York. You may follow him on X @KaminskiMK.
A Stark Choice for America’s Future
President Trump speaks after the Congress passed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a signature achievement of his term in office
The U.S. Pivot to Asia and American Grand Strategy
Richard Fontaine is the CEO of the Center for a New American Security, having previously served as its President between 2012 and 2019. This essay is a permitted excerpt from the latest book by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine entitled Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power (2024). Copyright © 2024 by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Candidates Trump and Harris
Hugh T. Dugan is a former Special Assistant to the President of the United States, having also served as Senior Director for International Organization Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council (2020). A seasoned diplomat, he was formerly a U.S. Delegate to the UN and Senior Advisor to a number of Permanent Representatives of the United States to the UN between 1989 and 2015.