A mapping of the twenty-first-century world that provides a detailed strategy for reconciling the West with the "rise of the rest."

Through compelling analysis and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, How Enemies Become Friends explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity, and exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace.

At a time when American primacy appears to be stronger than ever, Council Fellow and Georgetown Professor Charles Kupchan argues that the end of Pax Americana is near. What will replace American supremacy, and how American leaders should prepare for this new era, are the central questions of this provocative new book.

Globalization is widening the gap between what voters demand and what their governments can deliver. Unless the leading democracies can restore their political and economic solvency, the very model they represent may lose its allure.

NATO would run a strategic risk by admitting Russia, but the Atlantic alliance is actually running a greater strategic risk by excluding it.

During his first year in office, U.S. President Barack Obama made engagement with U.S. adversaries one of his administration's priorities.

A league of democracies would not secure cooperation among democracies and would expose the limits of the West's power and legitimacy. The next president should not embrace this disastrous idea.

Deep divisions at home about the nature of the United States' engagement with the world threaten to produce failed leadership abroad -- and possibly isolationism. To steady U.S. global leadership and restore consensus to U.S. foreign policy, U.S. commitments overseas must be scaled back to a more politically sustainable level.

Given the atrocities they have suffered in the past and the autonomy they are enjoying now, Kosovo's Albanians will never accept continued Serbian sovereignty. The time has come to give them what they want -- independence.

This module addresses the broad strategic challenges and emerging nature of global politics facing the United States in this new century.  It would be appropriate in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses.

Charles A. Kupchan argues that the twenty-first century will witness a global power transition as China, India, Brazil, and other rising states challenge Western dominance.

Charles A. Kupchan discusses the foreign policy challenges and constraints confronting the winner of next Tuesday's presidential election.

Charles A. Kupchan argues that the Atlantic alliance is remarkably resilient, but it must now face the urgent challenge of economic and political weakness that has descended upon the West.

Charles A. Kupchan argues that unless the growing gap between governance and governed is resolved, the EU may be headed for fragmentation, if not outright dissolution.

Charles Kupchan states, "Tectonic shifts in international affairs and in political and economic conditions within the United States call for reconsideration of the first principles of American grand strategy—the fundamental tenets guiding the nation's statecraft."

Charles A. Kupchan analyzes the theories and causes of stable peace.

Charles A. Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz discuss the erosion of the liberal internationalist consensus in U.S. foreign policy.

Charles A. Kupchan offers reasons the Unites States and its allies should keep the door to dialogue with Iran open until the eleventh hour.

Charles Kupchan and Adam Mount argue that the end of Western dominance means a new foreign policy principle is needed to advance international order.