Foreign_Affairs_-_03_2020_-_04_2020

March/April 2020

ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM

Maysam Behravesh

on Iran’s Quds Force

after Soleimani.

Amaka Anku and

Tochi Eni-Kalu on

African urbanization.

Michael Carpenter on

Ukrainian oligarchs in

the Trump era.

ESSAYS

Why America Must Lead Again 64

Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

How the Good War Went Bad 77

America’s Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan

Carter Malkasian

The Epidemic of Despair 92

Will America’s Mortality Crisis Spread to the Rest o the World?

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

The Digital Dictators 103

How Technology Strengthens Autocracy

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright

Too Big to Prevail 116

The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

Ganesh Sitaraman

Saving America’s Alliances 127

The United States Still Needs the System That Put It on Top

Mira Rapp-Hooper

Mean Streets 141

The Global Traˆc Death Crisis

Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow