Wess Mitchell Archives

January 20, 2020

The Age of Great-Power Competition

Foreign Affairs | U.S. foreign policy is, by most accounts, in disarray. Headlines—including in these pages—proclaim the death of global American leadership. Famous...
December 12, 2019

The Middle East in an Era of Great Power Competition, Hoover Institute

Hoover Institution | In 1920, a young Winston Churchill wrote a memorandum to the Cabinet outlining his concerns about British policy in the Middle East...
October 1, 2019

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

Princeton University Press | The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world...
April 12, 2019

Rethinking Metternich, Standpoint Magazine

Standpoint Magazine | “The historian is not yet born,” the Austrian state chancellor Clemens Wenzel von Metternich complained in 1829, “who will describe the numerous events....
August 15, 2017

The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

Princeton University Press | The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power. How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nations