Outside the Beltway

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

Two months after the Singapore Summit, there’s no sign that anything substantive has been accomplished on the Korean Peninsula.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

Is it time to just admit that the good old days are over?

Joseph Nye explains why China’s “demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China’s dollar assets” is really just talk.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.