July/August 2019ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM
George Herring on
Vietnam’s lessons for
leaving Afghanistan.Amanda Sloat on the
increasingly messy
Brexit breakup.Madawi al-Rasheed
on the new Saudi
diaspora.ESSAYS
American Hustle 62
What Mueller Found—and Didn’t Find—About Trump and Russia
Stephen Kotkin
The New Tiananmen Papers 80
Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China
Andrew J. Nathan
A World Safe for Autocracy? 92
China’s Rise and the Future o Global Politics
Jessica Chen Weiss
Europe Alone 109
What Comes After the Transatlantic Alliance
Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad
The Global Economy’s Next Winners 121
What It Takes to Thrive in the Automation Age
Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Michael Spence
Africa’s Democratic Moment? 131
The Five Leaders Who Could Transform the Region
Judd Devermont and Jon Temin
With Great Demographics Comes Great Power 146
Why Population Will Drive Geopolitics
Nicholas Eberstadt