Cancel the Foreign-Policy Apocalypse
A second Trump term probably wouldn’t change U.S. foreign policy all that much.
Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot Cohen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. Cohen is also the author of Supreme Command, Conquered Into Liberty, The Big Stick, and other works on military history and national-security policy. He created the strategic-studies program at Johns Hopkins SAIS and served as the school’s ninth dean. He has also served as the counselor of the Department of State and in other positions in the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Ben Birchall / Getty; Bulent Kilic / Getty; Laurent Van der Stockt / Getty; Yuri Gripas / Getty. Farewell to Academe
I leave with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: James W. Rosenthal / Library of Congress; Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency / Getty The Great Academic Squirm
To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role.
Sophie Park / The New York Times / Redux The Awfulness of War Can’t Be Avoided
Western leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting hard necessities.
Quique Kierszenbaum / Guardian / eyevine / Redux The Coalition of the Malevolent
Iran’s attack on Israel is just one campaign in a much larger conflict.
Rimawi / Anadolu / Getty The War Is Not Going Well for Ukraine
If the United States does nothing, the coming seasons will be even bleaker—and not just in Kyiv.
Roman Pilipey / AFP / Getty Solzhenitsyn’s Warning
His excoriating critique of Western liberalism is more relevant than ever.
Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Zelensky Finds a General
Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhny had the second-most-difficult job in the world. His boss has the most difficult one.
Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters Iran Cannot Be Conciliated
America’s segmented, limited, and naive policy approach toward Iran continues to fail. The U.S. needs to try something new.
Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty The Decatur Option
The U.S. knows how to put an end to attacks on shipping.
UK Ministry of Defense / Anadolu / Getty
