The A330 is the Perfect Atlantic Airplane and More Fleet Tales with American’s CCO

"The ceasefire is barely a tactical pause between actors whose core objectives remain fundamentally unchanged," write Pegah Banihashemi and Paul Poast

Everyone understands politics through their own life. The range of experiences that led me to spend mine thinking about politics preceded my experience of the challenges and opportunities of studyi...

The White House braces for a potential oil spike to $150 or higher as the Iran war chokes supply.

Nat Pieper Tackles the Tall Task of Fixing American’s Revenue Problems

Podcast Episode · The Air Show · 01/22/2026 · 24m

As the UN General Assembly convenes for its eightieth session, one major topic of debate is the secretary-general’s internal reform plan, which proposes significant budget cuts and agency consolidati…

Now could be the time to ratchet up sanctions pressure on Putin and change Moscow’s risk analysis of prolonging the war.

The idea that Trump is swaying Russia’s and India’s foreign policies misses a key point about great power politics.

The breakdown of nuclear diplomacy, misleading talk of ‘limited’ nuclear war and a lack of public awareness have produced a dangerously heightened risk.

An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.   Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activ...

Professor & Head of Department (Political Science)

Zarakol reflects on the collapse of the post–Cold War liberal international order and contrasts today's disorientation with the bold, definitive visions offered by thinkers like Fukuyama, Huntington, ...

In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the chaotic day in Istanbul from Europe’s perspective.

The paper proceeds in two main sections. First, it sketches out the nature of critique as a de-canonising practice within IR theory and how critique has itself ...

Trump’s new spheres of influence.

Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

What the forgotten war has revealed about the international system.

Samuel Moyn: Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of our Times. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 229.)

The norm against territorial conquest has underpinned the post-World War II rules-based order. But it now seems to be weakening.

Business Podcast · Updated Weekly · Jon Ostrower, Brian Sumers and Brett Snyder discuss the business of the sky on this aviation podcast.

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...

Dariusz Wójcik and Liam Keenan— Donald Trump’s second term as US president, which commenced on January 20, 2025, has been anything but muted. In a slight deviation from a focus... READ MORE

“Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe—for liberalism.” That is how Samuel Moyn opens his latest book, Liberalism Against Itself, pithily summarizing its m

What happens when a superpower goes rogue.

CHONG JA IAN (National University of Singapore) explains why the Republic must clarify how to operationalise its key principles of international relations in a rapidly evolving and tumultuous global e...

Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.