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Jul 25, 2024
From Ukraine to Gaza to the South China Sea, the world is littered with crises. International cooperation is paralyzed by diplomatic rivalry; techno-optimism has given way to a...
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Jul 12, 2024
The global democratic community is strong, but it isn’t particularly stable right now. Amid the unending political churn of post-Brexit Britain, the Conservatives just suffered...
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Jul 5, 2024
There are lies, damn lies and rumors about North Korea. So treat recent reports that Pyongyang will send troops to aid Russia’s assault on Ukraine with more than a...
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Jun 26, 2024
Israel faces several grave decisions in the coming weeks — what to do in Gaza after the fighting in Rafah concludes, how to balance the campaign against Hamas with the quest to...
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Jun 12, 2024
Artificial intelligence will change our everyday lives in innumerable ways: how governments serve their citizens; how we drive (and get driven); how we handle and, we hope, protect...
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May 27, 2024
What would become of the world if the United States became a normal great power? This isn’t to ask what would happen if the United States retreated into outright...
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May 21, 2024
Ukraine’s fate is no longer hostage to neo-isolationists in the US Congress. But its fortunes are still at their lowest ebb since the desperate days after the initial...
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May 16, 2024
Foreign policy experts have worried for decades about a second Korean War. No one ever imagined it would happen in Ukraine.
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May 3, 2024
Sometimes, foreign policy is simply about averting catastrophe. By that metric, Washington did well last week.
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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...