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Apr 24, 2024
Ukraine burns and the Middle East simmers, but the Western Pacific appears relatively placid. There hasn’t been a major crisis in US-China relations since the spy balloon...
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Apr 19, 2024
Don’t let the paltry damage caused by Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel last weekend fool you. The Iranians intended to cause widespread death and destruction....
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Apr 17, 2024
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Apr 17, 2024
The ghosts of empire are haunting Eurasia. President Xi Jinping’s China is seeking to reclaim the power and privileges of the great dynasties that once bestrode Asia. President...
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Apr 11, 2024
President Joe Biden’s Middle East policy hangs in the balance. Negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza have reached a critical stage. Attacks by the Houthis in Yemen are snarling...
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Mar 29, 2024
The U.S. alliance system: there’s never been anything quite like it. Ancient Athens helmed the Delian League.
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Mar 27, 2024
Our world resembles the 1930s more than we might think. Now, as then, the balance of power is shifting ominously. Violent autocracies are seeking expansive empires. Ties between...
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Mar 23, 2024
The Houthis are sinking ships and killing sailors. China is waging a persistent campaign to make the South China Sea its own private lake. Russia is claiming...
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Mar 7, 2024
It’s one of the classic lines in America cinema. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are cornered by a posse of lawmen, and the only...
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Mar 1, 2024
As former President Donald Trump rolls toward the Republican nomination, countries everywhere are preparing for what a Trump restoration might mean. Few have more at stake in the...
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Feb 29, 2024
Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?
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Feb 27, 2024
Year one of Vladimir Putin’s vicious war in Ukraine saw Russia fall flat on its face. Year two saw it get back on its feet. As we enter year three, the momentum is shifting in...
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Feb 23, 2024
Ask historians to name America’s greatest foreign policy blunders, and you’ll often hear a litany of misbegotten interventions — Vietnam, Iraq,...
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Feb 8, 2024
If the Pentagon hits Iran hard, will Iran back down or fight back?
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Jan 29, 2024
Amid cascading crises — a stalemated war in Ukraine, a febrile and violent Middle East, a clash for primacy with China — it is easy to despair for America’s global...
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Jan 26, 2024
The post-Cold War era began, in the early 1990s, with soaring visions of global peace.
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Jan 18, 2024
Ukraine confronts a grim 2024. The battlefield is stalemated. Its cities are facing brutal Russian attacks. The resolve of its Western partners may be flagging. This isn’t the...
Apr 17, 2024The ghosts of empire are haunting Eurasia. President Xi Jinping’s China is seeking to reclaim the power and privileges of the great dynasties that once bestrode Asia. President...
Mar 29, 2024The U.S. alliance system: there’s never been anything quite like it. Ancient Athens helmed the Delian League.
Mar 27, 2024Our world resembles the 1930s more than we might think. Now, as then, the balance of power is shifting ominously. Violent autocracies are seeking expansive empires. Ties between...
Mar 23, 2024The Houthis are sinking ships and killing sailors. China is waging a persistent campaign to make the South China Sea its own private lake. Russia is claiming...
Mar 7, 2024It’s one of the classic lines in America cinema. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are cornered by a posse of lawmen, and the only...
Mar 1, 2024As former President Donald Trump rolls toward the Republican nomination, countries everywhere are preparing for what a Trump restoration might mean. Few have more at stake in the...
Feb 29, 2024Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?
Feb 27, 2024Year one of Vladimir Putin’s vicious war in Ukraine saw Russia fall flat on its face. Year two saw it get back on its feet. As we enter year three, the momentum is shifting in...
Feb 23, 2024Ask historians to name America’s greatest foreign policy blunders, and you’ll often hear a litany of misbegotten interventions — Vietnam, Iraq,...
Feb 8, 2024If the Pentagon hits Iran hard, will Iran back down or fight back? 
Jan 29, 2024Amid cascading crises — a stalemated war in Ukraine, a febrile and violent Middle East, a clash for primacy with China — it is easy to despair for America’s global...
Jan 26, 2024The post-Cold War era began, in the early 1990s, with soaring visions of global peace. 
Jan 18, 2024Ukraine confronts a grim 2024. The battlefield is stalemated. Its cities are facing brutal Russian attacks. The resolve of its Western partners may be flagging. This isn’t the...