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Reading Schmitt in Beijing

In his hugely influential 1992 bestseller, The End of History and the Last Man, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously asserted that “...

yesterday 10

Benn Steil

Russia Isn’t Done With Syria

When armed factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, many observers believed that...

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Hanna Notte

The Return of the Starvation Weapon

In late August, two of the world’s leading food crisis assessments came to the same conclusion about what is happening in Gaza: “famine with...

yesterday 10

Alex De Waal

The Price of Unpredictability

For decades, U.S. foreign policy has depended on credibility: the belief that Washington would honor its commitments and that its past behavior...

wednesday 40

Keren Yarhi-Milo

Sudan’s War Is the Shape of Things to Come

On September 12, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States announced a joint road map for ending Sudan’s devastating...

wednesday 10

Alan Boswell

The U.S. Military’s Greatest Test

Why were U.S. military officers fretting about having to show up, on short notice, to a base in Quantico, Virginia, to hear a speech from the two...

wednesday 1

Peter D. Feaver

The Middle East That Israel Has Made

The countries of the Middle East increasingly see Israel as their new shared threat. Israel’s war in Gaza, its expansionist military policies, and...

30.09.2025 4

Galip Dalay

How America Outcompeted Japan

In Washington today, a familiar anxiety hangs in the air. American policymakers fear that China will leapfrog the United States in the technologies...

30.09.2025 40

Carl Benedikt Frey

The Chance to Save Myanmar

Since Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in 2021, it has ruled with devastating violence. Junta forces...

30.09.2025 1

Dan Swift

The Fatal Flaw in the Transatlantic Alliance

When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he had his sights set on rebalancing the transatlantic relationship. He would be...

29.09.2025 10

Jennifer Kavanagh

China Goes on Offense

A great unanswered question of the second Trump administration has been how its outright rejection of the existing global order would affect...

28.09.2025 10

Jeffrey Prescott

The Irony of Trump’s Spat With Brazil

It’s hard to imagine Washington taking a more heavy-handed response to the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was...

28.09.2025 3

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