The World Today Open access The World Today ‘We are at a moment of peril with AI ... The sooner [it is regulated], the better’ Sebastian Mallaby, the author of a recent book on Google DeepMind, tells Mike Higgins about the urgent need for regulation, why Europe will have to follow the United States’

The World Today Open access The World Today Book reviews: What’s behind America’s hang-up with Iran and why are strong states so bad at coercion? A potted selection of reviews from our sister journal ‘International Affairs’, by its editorial coordinator Aroni Sarkar. 14 September 2026 3 minute READ

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Drones, Missiles, and the U.S. Munitions Shortage

U.S. Foreign Economic Policy Needs a Quarterback

The U.S. government should empower the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to be a more effective agency to lead on economic growth abroad.

The Partner System Repriced

This paper proposes that the 2025–26 rupture in US-India relations arose from two key factors that enmeshed: presidential decision-making based on dogmatic foreign policy beliefs and transactional style in place of strategy; and the silent but long accumulating frustration in the United States…

Global Regional Analysis on International Affairs

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) analyzes important foreign policy & national security issues and their impact across global regions.

Russia's Nuclear Deterrent and Its Weapons Procurement

This paper provides a decisive analysis of how Russia's nuclear deterrent and weapons procurement strategy are set to evolve, shaping the future of global ...

A tired U.S.-China tango

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September state visit to the U.S. produced no joint statement, indicating major differences, although both countries agreed Iran should not develop nuclear weapons and no country should collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. Tariffs on China remained unresolved. There…

October 7 Exposed Terrifying American Truths—and Launched a Righteous Reckoning

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Issue Brief on “Trump at the 81st UN General Assembly: American Power, Coercive Diplomacy and the Emerging International Order”

“America is back.” “Our military is the most powerful on earth.” “Our power is expanding.” These opening declarations of President Donald Trump’s address to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22 September 2026[1] established the central premise of his speech: American…

2026 Annual Report

CFR's think tank, analyzes pressing global challenges and offers actionable steps that policymakers and citizens can take to address them.

Issue Brief on “China-U.S. Eight Outcomes: A Framework for Managing Strategic Competition”

The China-U.S. relationship remains one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the international system. Competition between the world’s two largest economies has expanded beyond trade to technology, artificial intelligence, supply chains, strategic security and regional affairs. At…

Research programme Defence and Military Analysis

The Defence and Military Analysis Programme (DMAP) is a globally recognised source for accurate open-source data and analysis on defence policy, military ...

A Phased Agenda for U.S.-ROK Shipbuilding Cooperation

U.S.-ROK cooperation on shipbuilding should be structured so that it strengthens U.S. maritime industrial capacity, makes commercial sense for Korean shipbuilders, and survives the political and regulatory constraints on both sides.

What Canada Knows About American Power

Smaller powers cannot go it alone, but Canadian history shows that integration with the United States will not always be benign.

Squandering Attraction: How the Second Trump Administration is Undermining American Soft Power

Soft power on its own is insufficient to meet U.S. national security needs, but hard power also has its limits. Soft power allows for more effective and efficient use of hard power than hard power alone, as it encourages cooperation and compliance which deters the need for hard power.

The Scope and Nature of the U.S.-China Competition

China is not set to dominate world politics. This report is the first of several deliverables in a RAND study on U.S.-China competition,

India After the Liberal Order | Council on Foreign Relations

India has been skeptical of the U.S.-led liberal international order since its independence. Now, the United States also seems keen to abandon the order it once championed. This transition period poses a host of challenges—and a few opportunities for collaboration—for the world's two largest…

AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence

Germany, India, and other middle powers can’t build frontier AI alone, and they risk being cut off if they depend on the United States or China. The way through is to build the capacity for a frontier sprint while hoping never to use it.