- “How Pay-to-Play in the White House Threatens Export Controls against China,” The National Interest, August 19, 2025.
- “Strategies of Prioritization: American Foreign Policy after Primacy,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2025). With Daryl G. Press.
- “Do Friends Let Friends Go Nuclear? Lawfare, May 5, 2024
- “Japan’s Nuremberg: The Tokyo Trial and the Birth of Postwar Liberalism,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2023. Book Review of Gary J. Bass’s Judgment at Tokyo.
- “Extended Deterrence in the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Adapting to a New Threat Environment,” National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Roundtable, June 10, 2023.
- Japan Can’t Pass the Buck Anymore,” New York Times, May 18, 2023.
- “The Politics of the China Threat in East Asia,” Power Problems Podcast, CATO Institute, April 2023.
- “South Korea’s Nuclear Options: As Pyongyang’s Capabilities Advance, Seoul Needs More Than Reassurance From Washington,” Foreign Affairs, April 19, 2023. With Daryl G. Press.
- Why Shinzo Abe Thought Japan had to Change,” Foreign Affairs, July 12, 2022.
- “Should South Korea Build its own Nuclear Bomb?” Washington Post, October 7, 2021. With Daryl G. Press.
- “Japan Must Disavow Pacifism and Embrace Collective Defense,” Nikkei Asia, June 18, 2021. With Elbridge Colby.
- “With US Help, Japan’s Stance Toward China Hardens,” Financial Times, April 21, 2021.
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“Should South Korea Build its own Nuclear Bomb?” Washington Post, October 7, 2021. With Daryl G. Press.
- “Joe Biden Would Strengthen the US-South Korea Alliance, but is that the Best for America?” National Interest, August 31, 2021
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“Reality Check: American Power in an Age of Constraints,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 2020).
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“America’s Ailing Alliances,” Chatham House US and the Americas Programme, December 9, 2019.
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“The Politics of the Present,” The Diplomat, November 1, 2019
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“The Japan-South Korea Dispute Isn’t Just About the Past,”Washington Post, August 30, 3019.
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“The Future of the International Liberal Order is Conservative: A Strategy to Save the System,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2019. With William C. Wohlforth.
- “Is the US-China Relationship About to Permanently Shrink?” International Economy, January 2019.
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“Life in China’s Asia,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018.
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“Saving the Liberal Order from Itself,” Politique étrangère, Vol.82, No.4, Winter 2017-2018
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Podcast, “Is Nationalism on the Rise in Japan? Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C. Interview with Sheila Smith, December 2017.
- “Asia’s Other Revisionist Power: Why U.S. Grand Strategy Unnerves China,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 2017).
- “The Art of the Bluff: the US-Japan Alliance under the Trump Administration,” the International Security Studies Policy Forum, H-Diplo, April 24, 2017.
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“Why China Won’t Solve the North Korea Nuclear Problem,” CNN Opinion, August 7, 2017.”Is Playing Tough in China’s Interest?” Room for Debate, New York Times, August 23, 2016.
- “As Obama Goes to Hiroshima 3 Principles for a Successful Visit,” MonkeyCage Blog, Washington Post, May 26, 2016.
- “The Presidential Path to Hiroshima,” Foreign Affairs, April 8, 2016.
- “It took years of diplomacy for Abe and Obama to stand together at Pearl Harbor,” Quartz.com, December 27, 2016.
- “Shinzo Abe’s Balancing Act,” Al Jazeera America, August 20, 2015.
- “Japan’s Security Evolution, Not Revolution,” Wall St. Journal, July 21, 2015.
- “Making Up Isn’t Hard to Do,” Foreign Affairs, March 5, 2015.
- “Korean Unification: Before the Bonanza,” 38North.org, February 12, 2015.
- Interviewed in “Asia’s Unfinished War,” Wall Street Journal documentary film, December 2014.
- “In Australia, Shinzo Abe Astutely Handles History,” National Interest, July 16, 2014.
- “China’s Growing Assertiveness is Transforming Japan’s Security Policy,” Al Jazeera America, July 9, 2014.
- “Pivot Problems: What Washington Should Concede in East Asia,” Foreign Affairs, June 25, 2014.
- Contributor, expert panel on North Korea:”Is China Losing Faith in North Korea?” Guardian, May 9, 2014.
- “Can East Asia Move Past its History Problem?” National Interest, May 7, 2014.
- “Bridging Divergent Interests in the US-Japan Alliance,” Asahi Shimbun, April 23, 2014.
- “The Rarity of Honoring Those You’ve Killed,” Al Jazeera America, April 6, 2014.
- “Beijing’s Ukraine Dilemma a mix of competing interests,” Asahi Shimbun, March 17, 2014.
- VIDEO: Panel Discussion, “JFK, RFK, and Japan,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Forum, March 13, 2014. With Akira Iriye and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
- “American Eyes on Abe’s Yasukuni Shrine Visit,” Asahi Shimbun, February 9, 2014.
- “When History Humiliates Former Enemies,” CNN Opinion, January 3, 2014.
- “Sorry I’m Not Sorry: The Perils of Apologies in International Relations,” Postscript, Foreign Affairs, November 21, 2013.
- VIDEO: “Moving Forward from East Asia’s History Problems,” speech at the Asan Beijing Forum, November 2013, in Beijing, China. (Lind talk begins at 35:50)
- “Why Not Say Sorry? Afghanistan and the Politics of Apologies,” guest post for The Monkey Cage blog, Washington Post, November 21, 2013.
- “The Limits on Nationalism in Japan,” New York Times, July 23, 2013.
- “When Camelot Went to Japan,” National Interest (July/August 2013).
- “Red Lines and Red Herrings,” Guest post for Stephen Walt’s blog, Foreign Policy, May 13, 2013. (with Daryl G. Press).
- “Camelot’s Contributions to the U.S.-Japan Alliance,” Newsweek Japan, April 2013.
- “Will China Finally ‘Bite’ North Korea?” CNN Opinion, March 12, 2013.
- “Why Cameron Didn’t Apologize to India,” The Diplomat, March 5, 2013. (with Sumit Ganguly)
- “Pyongyang’s Nuclear Logic,” Foreign Affairs, electronic version, February 13, 2013. (with Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press).
- “Normal Japan,” Newsweek Japan, February 6, 2013.
- “Japan Must Face Its Past,” Washington Post, January 25, 2013.
- “Japan, the Never Normal,” Guest post at “Asia Unbound,” Council on Foreign Relations blog, November 20, 2012.
- “Between Giants: South Korea and the U.S.-China Rivalry,” The Atlantic, July 21, 2012.
- “Learning to Share the Stage,” New York Times/International Herald Tribune, February 5, 2012.
- “Kim Jong Un Takes World’s Worst Job,” Foreign Affairs, December 22, 2011.
- “Planning for North Korean Collapse,” Asahi Shimbun, December 16, 2010.
- “The Once and Future Kim: Succession and Stasis in North Korea” Foreign Affairs, October 2010.
- “Giving North Korea the Bomb” 38North.org, October 2010. (with Daryl Press)
- “The Future of the North Korean Regime: A Conversation with James Church and Jennifer Lind” 38North.org, September 2010.
- “Apology Diplomacy at Hiroshima” The Atlantic, August 13, 2010.
- “Symbolic Gestures: Lessons for East Asia from a Compromise on History in America,” Global Asia, June 2010. [pdf]
- “Virginia’s Lessons for East Asia’s History Problems” Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune, May 19, 2010.
- “Next of Kim,” Foreign Policy, April 2010.
- Author Interview: “Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics,” Rorotoko.com, September 2009.
- “Dangerous Games,” The Atlantic, March 2006