Foreign Affairs - 11.2019 - 12.2019

November/December 2019

ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

on the gutting of

India’s democracy.

Alexander Stille on

Italy’s precarious

triumph over populism.

Kristine Lee on

Chinese leadership at

the United Nations.

ESSAYS

War Is Not Over 74

What the Optimists Get Wrong About Con‰ict

Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast

The Nonintervention Delusion 84

What War Is Good For

Richard Fontaine

The Unwinnable Trade War 99

Everyone Loses in the U.S.-Chinese Clash—but Especially

Americans

Weijian Shan

The Progressive Case Against Protectionism 109

How Trade and Immigration Help American Workers

Kimberly Clausing

Nowhere to Go 122

How Governments in the Americas Are Bungling the Migration Crisis

Alexander Betts

Let Russia Be Russia 134

The Case for a More Pragmatic Approach to Moscow

Thomas Graham

Beyond Great Forces 148

How Individuals Still Shape History

Daniel Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack