Shields of the Republic is a serious book about the value of America’s alliances and how to both preserve and expand that value. Mira Rapp-Hooper succinctly sums up the purpose of America’s post-World ...

“No man is an island, entire of itself,” wrote the English poet John Donne in 1624.1 The same is true of nations. The United States now sits at the apex of an international network of alliances ...

The U.S. alliance system: there’s never been anything quite like it. Ancient Athens helmed the Delian League. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck skillfully played Europe’s alliance game in the ...

The challenges of defeating the novel coronavirus have put our lives into sharp focus by pushing out nonessential issues. Are civil rights an essential issue now? Will the changes that the pandemic ...