Articles
Articles by Year
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November 5, 2024 - The Threat of Civil War, extended interview in the Berlin Tagesspiegel (German).
2024 - The History of Foreign Election Interference and an Alternative Future, in Zelizer and Greenberg, eds., Our Nation at Risk (NYU Press, 2024), 55-72.
July 21, 2024 - What Presidential History Tells Us About Biden's Decision Not To Seek Reelection, Time.
July 19, 2024 - Roundtable of scholarly reviews of my book, Civil War By Other Means, with author response, H-Diplo.
July 19, 2024 - "The Irrelevance of J.D. Vance to US Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy. PDF Version.
July 14, 2024 - "How the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump Fits Into America's Violent History," Time.
June 26, 2024 - "Biden and Trump's Debate Could Make Foreign-Policy History," Foreign Policy. PDF Version.
May 3, 2024 - “From Dorms to Demonstrations: The Roots of Student Protest,” in IPS-Journal. German version. Russian version.
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November 2, 2022 - “America’s Long History of Political Violence,” Time. PDF version.
November 2022 - “The American Foreign Policy Canon,” (in Italian) in Limes: Italian Journal of Geopolitics, 245-52.
2022 - “Henry Kissinger and the Building of International Order,” (in German) in Gisela Dachs, ed., Judischer Almanach der Leo Baeck Institute (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2022), 73-85.
September 14, 2022 - “Women in College Are Moving Left—But Men Are Migrating to the Right,” (with Samuel J. Abrams), Newsweek.
September 2, 2022 - “What Gorbachev taught us about leadership,” (with William Inboden), The Hill.
June 2022 — Applied History and Diplomacy. In A New Global Order? History and Power Politics in the Era of Zeitenwende (Körber Stiftung, 2022), 21-22.
2022 - Freedom as Ideology. In Ideology and U.S. Foreign Relations, eds., Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne (Columbia University Press, 2022), 281-98.
June 3, 2022 - A Book on Leadership that Offers Real Leaders, Not Abstract Theories. Washington Post.
2022 - The History of the Cold War, Thirty Years After. Diplomatic History 46.
May 6, 2022 - Our Nation is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War. Time. PDF version.
April 8, 2022 - Presidential Mishandling of Records and the Damage to Democracy (with Kenneth Osgood). The Hill.
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October 26, 2021 - Henry Kissinger and the Puzzle of the Middle East- New York Times.
September 10, 2021 - 9/11 Aftermath: Twenty Years of Trauma. The Hill.
September 2, 2021 - Policy Incrementalism: Lessons from the Great Depression for COVID (with Jordan Ellenberg). Slate.
August 30, 2021 - America’s Military is Too Big for America’s Good. New York Times.
August 16, 2021 - Why Afghanistan’s Tribes Beat the United States. Foreign Policy.
June 18, 2021 - Jimmy Carter’s Missing Ingredient: Presidential Charisma. Washington Post.
April 5, 2021 - The Nuclear Military-Industrial Complex. Balkinization.
February 3, 2021 - Foreign Policy Pragmatism is Back. So Are its Flaws. Foreign Policy.
February 2021 - Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair. American Heritage Magazine 66.
January 29, 2021 - Elite Universities Have Promoted Destructive Republican Leaders. London School of Economics US Centre.
January 12, 2021 - Elite Universities Have Promoted Destructive Republican Leaders. The Constitutionalist.
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December 2020 - Historical Thinking for Resilient Leaders. In Steven Pedigo, ed., Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19, 19-23; Reprinted in Government Executive; Full text of the report, with 29 authors.
November 19, 2020 - Lessons from Obama’s Memoir. CNN.com. Reprinted in Urbanitus.
November 2-3, 2020 - The Dangerous Interregnum (with Jeffrey Tulis). The Bulwark. London School of Economics US Centre.
November 2, 2020 - Get Ready for a November Foreign Policy Surprise. Foreign Policy.
October 5, 2020 - Who is in Control? Hospitalized Presidents and the 25th Amendment. Perspectives on History.
August 31, 2020 - White House Insiders’ Failure to Rein In Trump’s Lawlessness and Chaos. Washington Post.
July 17, 2020 - What “American Century”? The Past & Future of U.S. Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy. Reprinted as “The Vanishing American Century?” Notevenpast.com.
July 9, 2020 - 2020 Will Be a Realigning Election, Led by Young Voters (with Samuel J. Abrams). Real Clear Policy.
July 9, 2020 - A Conversation Between Richard Reddick, Jeremi Suri, and Zachary Suri on Confederate Monuments, Racism, and Democracy. Urbanitus.
June 24, 2020 - John Bolton Enabled Trump’s Disastrous Policies. Foreign Policy.
June 19, 2020 - The President as Parent: Consoler, Protector, and, Sometimes, Failure. Washington Post.
May 5, 2020 - History and Renewal in the Modern City, with Alison Alter. Urbanitus.
April 17, 2020 - When the President is more like a Little Kid than a Leader. Washington Post.
2020 - Remaking the Presidency After Trump. In Democracy Unchained, eds., Orr, Gumbel, Kitwana, and Becker (New Press, 2020), 87-97.
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2019 - George Kennan: American Machiavelli. In Michael Kimmage and Matthew Rojansky, eds., A Kennan for Our Times: Diplomatic Lessons (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2019), 55-71. Full Volume (including endnotes).
2019 - The Cost of Victory in the Second World War. In Liberation and Legacy (National WWII Museum, 2019), 24-27.
2019 - Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Misconduct. In James Banner, Jr., ed., Presidential Misconduct (New Press, 2019), 405-19.
April 17, 2019 - The Long Rise and Sudden Fall of American Diplomacy. Foreign Policy.
March 12, 2019 - How Presidential Empathy Can Improve Politics. Washington Post.
February 20, 2019 - Congress and American Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy.
2019, Winter - American Politics and the Contemporary International System. Global Brief Magazine.
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December 21, 2018 - American Pressure Against “Revisionist” Russia and China. Instituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale.
September 28, 2018 - The Successes and Sharp Stumbles of Trump’s First Year. Washington Post.
September 26, 2018 - Globalism Helped Make America Great. The New Republic.
September 2018 - Nixon and Brezhnev: Lessons for American-Russian Relations. Diplomatic History 42.
August 28, 2018 - Foreign Collusion Has Corrupted American Politics, from Nixon to Trump. Foreign Policy.
August 2, 2018 - Learning from Henry Kissinger. New York Times.
November 2018 - Strange Bedfellows: Book Review on US-Arab relations in the 1970s. Diplomatic History 42.
June 13, 2018 - The Limits of Incrementalism and Obama’s Presidency. Foreign Policy.
June 12, 2018 - Beyond Singapore: Why the US is Abdicating its Historical Role In Asia. Instituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale.
May 29, 2018 - Trump is Repeating the German Monarch’s Blundering Before World War I. Foreign Policy.
May 10, 2018 - Trump’s Terrifying Treaty of Versailles Precedent in Iran. Foreign Policy.
May 9, 2018 - The Presidency is Too Big to Succeed. Atlantic Magazine.
April 27, 2018 - On the Current State and Future of U.S. Politics and Policy-Making. Global Brief Magazine.
March 22, 2018 - Historical Lessons for Presidential Meetings with Foreign Leaders. Foreign Policy.
2018 - Liberal Internationalism, Law, and the First African-American President. In Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of Barack Obama (Princeton University Press, 2018), 195-211.
January 31, 2018 - Roundtable on The Impossible Presidency, including My Response. Texas National Security Review.
January 23, 2018 - What’s Wrong with the American Presidency? Extended Interview. The Progressive.
January 9, 2018 - Nuclear Hotlines and Crisis Diplomacy. Foreign Policy.
2018, Winter/Spring - Whither the United States Over the Next Five Years. Global Brief Magazine.
December 2017 - Training Effective Diplomats for the 21st Century, with Robert Hutchings. Foreign Service Journal.
October 19, 2017 - The U.S. Presidency Has Become An Impossible Job: Here Are Three Ideas To Fix It. Ted.com.
October 8, 2017 - Donald Trump and the “Madman” Playbook. Wired.
September 11, 2017 - How 9/11 Triggered Democracy’s Decline. Washington Post.
September 11, 2017 - The Wisdom of Limited Power: How to Fix the “Impossible Presidency.” War on the Rocks.
2017 - The Strange Career of Nation-Building as a Concept in US Foreign Policy. In Jean-Francois Drolet and James Dunkerley, eds. American Foreign Policy: Studies in Intellectual History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 33-45.
August 16, 2017 - The Guns of August are “Locked and Loaded.” American Prospect.
2017 - An Interview about Contemporary History. Mondo contemporaneo 2 (2017), 101-03.
2017 - A Depressed and Self-Destructive President: Richard Nixon in the White House. In Jeffrey Engel and Thomas Knock, eds., When Life Strikes the President (Oxford University press, 2017), 233-255.
January 27, 2017 - How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years. Atlantic Magazine.
2017, Winter - Blustering Toward Armageddon: How Donald Trump Will Take America to War. American Prospect.
December 2016 - Why the European Union Still Matters in a Fracturing World. Fortune Magazine.
2016 - Historical Consciousness, Realism, and Public Intellectuals in American Society. Read this article: In Michael C. Desch, ed., Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016), 39-62.
2016 - Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy. Chapters from book (Oxford University Press, December 2016), edited by Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino.
November 2, 2016 - Perilous Polarities: A Defense of Historical Ecumenism. Organization of American Historians Blog.
April 2016 - History and Foreign Policy: Making the Relationship Work, with Hal Brands. Foreign Policy Research Institute.
2016 - Roundtable Discussion of Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy. Passport (April 2016), 28-38.
February 29, 2016 - Studying History to Improve Policy, with Hal Brands. History and Policy.
2016, Winter/Spring - Washington and Moscow’s High North Dance, with David Biette. Global Brief.
2016, Winter - Revitalizing the U.S. National Security Strategy, with James Goldgeier. The Washington Quarterly 38 (Winter 2016), 35-55.
January 18, 2016 - The Urgent Need for Real National Strategy, with James Goldgeier. War on the Rocks.
January 2016 - Lessons from Bill Clinton’s First Year for the Next President. Miller Center, First Year 2017 Project. (Broken link).
January 2016 - Leading the Impossible Presidency. Miller Center, First Year 2017 Project. (Broken link).
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December 27, 2015 - Which President Had the Best Last Year In Office? Politico Magazine.
October 5, 2015 - War and Diplomacy in an Age of Extremes. Imperial and Global Forum.
September 2015 - New Leaders for a New Century. Texas Town and City Magazine.
April 18, 2015 - The Humanities and Human Character. University of Texas Honors Convocation Address. (Broken link).
January 2015 - Public Intellectuals and Democracy. Read this article: Passport 45.
2015, Fall/Winter - The New Alliances of the 21st Century Read this article: Global Brief (Fall/Winter 2015), 48-52.
May 13, 2014 - A Generation in Need of Hope. Read this article: E-International Relations.
January/February 2014 - Operation Diplomacy: Revitalizing the Non-Military Parts of American Foreign Policy. Read this article (co-written with Robert Hutchings): Alcalde Magazine (January/February 2014), 26-29, 95.
2014, Spring - The Railroad and the Making of Modern America. Read this article: Center for Railroad Photography and Art exhibit catalog.
January/February 2014 - Estado moderno y protestas populares (The Modern State and Global Protests). Read this article in Spanish: Política Exterior (January/February 2014), 2-11.
September 16, 2013 - Offensive Charm: Why Vladimir Putin Tried – and Failed – to Woo the US Public. Read this article: Foreign Affairs.
2013, Spring/Summer - The 21st Century Individual in World Affairs. Read this article: Global Brief Magazine.
2013 - The US and the Cold War: Four Ideas that Shaped the 20th Century World. Read this article: in Geir Lundestad, ed., International Relations Since the End of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2013), 100-18.
January 2013 - Frontier U: The Historical and Contemporary Mission of America’s Public Universities. Read this article: Alcalde Magazine.
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October 7, 2012 - Are Today’s Politicians Ready for the Challenges and Opportunities of our Time? Read this article: Austin Statesman.
2012, Spring/Summer - Why the State Still Matters. Read this article: Global Brief Magazine (Spring/Summer 2012), 12-16.
Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration. Read this article: in Daniel S. Margolies, ed., A Companion to Harry S. Truman (Blackwell, 2012), 49-66.
2012 - The Lingering Cold War. Read this article: in The Establishment Responds: Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945, eds., Fahlenbrach, Klimke, Scharloth, and Wong (2012).
2011, Winter - Diplomatic Dead End? Henry Kissinger and the Arab Spring. Read this article: Reform Judaism Magazine.
2011 - Transnational Influences on American Politics. Read this article: Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2011), 559-65.
2011, Spring/Summer - How do We Talk to One Another? The Future of Diplomacy. Read this article: Global Brief Magazine (Spring/Summer 2011), 14-18.
March 2011 - Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. Read this article: History Now 27 (March 2011). (Broken link).
2011 - Conflict and Cooperation in the Cold War: New Directions in Research. Read this article: Journal of Contemporary History 46 (January 2011), 5-9.
2010 - Orphaned Diplomats: The American Struggle to Match Diplomacy with Power. Read this article: in The Prudent Use of Power (Tobin Project, 2010), 13-30.
2010, Winter - Where are the Kissingers for the 21st Century? Read this article: Global Brief (Winter 2010), 32-35.
February 2010 - Disarmament Attempts Past: Successes and Failures. Read this article: U.S. Department of State ejournal 15 (February 2010), 20-24.
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2009, Fall - American Grand Strategy After the Cold War’s End to 9/11. PDF. Read this article: Orbis 53 (Fall 2009), 611-27.
February 2009 - The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975. Read this article: The American Historical Review, 114:45–68.
November 2008 - Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War. Read this article: Diplomatic History 32 (November 2008), 719-47.
2008, Fall - Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of Global Conflict since 1945. Read this article: International Journal 63 (Autumn 2008), 1013-29.
November 2008 - Détente and Human Rights: American and West European Perspectives on International Change. Read this article: Cold War History 8 (November 2008), 527-45.
Summer 2008 - Kissinger: The Inside Outsider, Azure (2008), 58-92.
May 2006 - The Promise and Failure of ‘Developed Socialism:’ The Soviet ‘Thaw’ and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972. Read this article: Contemporary European History 15 (May 2006), 133-58.
August 2006 - The Cold War, Decolonization, and Global Social Awakenings: Historical Intersections. Read this article: Cold War History 6 (August 2006), 353-63.
2005 - Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Actors. From Palgrave Advances in International History, ed. Patrick Finney (2005).
April 2004 - The Cultural Contradictions of Cold War Education: The Case of West Berlin. Read this article: Cold War History 4 (April 2004), 1-20.
2003, Spring - The Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in October 1969 (with Scott D. Sagan). Read this article: International Security 27 (Spring 2003), 150-83.
2002, Fall - Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus? Read this article: Journal of Cold War Studies 4 (Fall 2002), 60-92.
2002, Spring - Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the “American Establishment,” and Cosmopolitan Nationalism. Read this article: Princeton University Library Chronicle 63 (Spring 2002), 438-65.
1997, Summer - America’s Search for a Technological Solution to the Arms Race: The Surprise Attack Conference of 1958 and a Challenge for “Eisenhower Revisionists.” Read this article: Diplomatic History 21 (Summer 1997), 417-51.
October 25, 2008 - The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon’s Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam. Read full article at wired.com. (Broken link).
July 20, 2007 - Henry Kissinger’s Lessons for George W. Bush. Read more at History News Network.
2006, Spring - The World the Superpowers Made. History in Focus.
February 1, 2004 - Reinventing NASA, Part Two: ‘New frontiers’ and the tempests along the way. Read more at San Francisco Chronicle (February 1, 2004, page D-5).
