The Open Society Foundations Launch The Ideas Letter, a New Online Magazine

Contributors for the "America in Decline?" issue:

Iza Ding is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and the author of The Performative State (Cornell University Press, 2022). She is spending the 2024-25 academic year in the fall as an Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in the spring at the Hertie School of Governance.

Ursula Lindsey is a reporter, essayist, and book reviewer who largely writes about North Africa and the Middle East, where she has lived for the last two decades. After living in Egypt and Morocco, she is now based in Amman, Jordan. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and a co-host of the BULAQ podcast, which focuses on Arabic literature in translation.

Fernanda Magnotta, Ph.D. in International Relations, is a professor and U.S. policy expert who heads the International Relations Program at FAAP (São Paulo) and serves as senior fellow at CEBRI and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. She is a regular media contributor and project leader connecting Brazil-U.S. stakeholders.

Cheta Nwanze is a researcher who specializes in politics and the economy. He works with SBM Intelligence, a Nigerian think tank that is focused on West Africa and its relationship with the world.

Basharat Peer is the author of Curfewed Night, a memoir about the conflict in Kashmir, and A Question of Order: India, Turkey and the Return of Strongmen. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and n+1. He worked as an international opinion editor at The New York Times and currently works at the International Crisis Group as deputy director for its Future of Conflict Program.

Kirill Rogov is a well-known expert on Russian politics and the economy, who left the country following the full-scale invasion, is living in Vienna, and has launched Re: Russia-Expertise, Analysis and Policy Network, providing in-depth analysis of Russian politics and economic development.

Natalia Saltalamacchia is chair of the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She served as general director of the Matías Romero Institute, Mexico's diplomatic academy, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018.

Lee Siegel publishes widely on politics and culture and is the recipient of a National Magazine Award. His eighth book, Nothing Alien: Writings 1989-2024, will be out next May.

Hans Kundnani is an adjunct professor at New York University and a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics. He was previously the director of the Europe Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and is the author of Eurowhiteness. Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (2023).

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University.