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The New Arteries of Power

In 1893, a few decades after the first transatlantic cable was laid, Rudyard Kipling published a poem about the marvels of “The Deep-Sea Cables.”...

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Lynn Kuok

How Multilateralism Can Survive

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out...

yesterday 7

Monica Herz

Cuba on the Brink

In 2014, after the Obama administration and Cuba’s government announced an agreement to restore diplomatic ties, the world descended on Havana....

previous day 50

Michael J. Bustamante

The Case for a Grand Bargain Between America and China

Over the last half century, Washington and Beijing have twice faced turning points that redefined the terms of their relationship. The first came...

wednesday 40

Wu Xinbo

A Middle Way for American Foreign Policy

The “America first” foreign policy of U.S. President Donald Trump has unsettled the world America made. Allies are questioning the United States’...

wednesday 20

Charles Kupchan

Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny

After February 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his so-called special military operation—a full-scale invasion of Ukraine—the...

30.12.2025 40

Nina Khrushcheva

America Needs Economic Warriors

For the greater part of the last decade, the United States and China have been locked in a cold war, fought as fiercely over economic and...

30.12.2025 1

Navin Girishankar

How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, policymakers and strategists have tried to prevent a country from deploying nuclear weapons by mistake. But the...

29.12.2025 10

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