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The AI Autocrat

The AI Autocrat

Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...

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Seva Gunitsky And Bruce Schneier

Why Iran Escalates

Why Iran Escalates

Tehran’s Strategy to Drive America Out of the Middle East

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Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv Needs to Survive

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Dmytro Kuleba

The New Forever War

The New Forever War

When will the war in Iran end? American officials claim that the answer is soon. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the [November]...

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Ali Vaez

The Scramble for the Open Seas

The Scramble for the Open Seas

Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside...

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Michael Albertus

The Two Shocks Upending Latin America

The Two Shocks Upending Latin America

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their...

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Dan Restrepo And Ricardo Zuniga

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv Needs to Survive

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Dmytro Kuleba

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War

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Dan Driscoll

Japan Is Giving the United States a Chance in Asia

Japan Is Giving the United States a Chance in Asia

Japan, a country constitutionally bound to pacifism since World War II, is investing in its defense and contributing to regional security in ways that...

27.09.2026 7

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David Sacks And Nick Snyder

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War

27.09.2026 10

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Dan Driscoll

How Iran Changed War

How Iran Changed War

When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...

25.09.2026 20

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Michael C. Horowitz

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

Use Today’s Calm to Prepare for the Next Perfect Storm

25.09.2026 70

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Jonathan A. Czin

How Iran Changed War

How Iran Changed War

When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...

24.09.2026 20

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Michael C. Horowitz

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

Use Today’s Calm to Prepare for the Next Perfect Storm

24.09.2026 20

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Jonathan A. Czin

The Price of Arctic Ambition

The Price of Arctic Ambition

In 2016, a crack in the ice opened beneath the site of the U.S. Navy’s flagship Arctic exercise several hundred miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,...

24.09.2026 10

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Iris Ferguson

How Putin Escalates

How Putin Escalates

A New Stage in Russia’s Confrontation With Ukraine—and the West

24.09.2026 10

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Andrei Kolesnikov

Underestimating China

Underestimating China

Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one...

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Kurt M. Campbell And Rush Doshi

The Price of Arctic Ambition

The Price of Arctic Ambition

In 2016, a crack in the ice opened beneath the site of the U.S. Navy’s flagship Arctic exercise several hundred miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,...

24.09.2026 20

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Iris Ferguson

How Putin Escalates

How Putin Escalates

A New Stage in Russia’s Confrontation with Ukraine—and the West

23.09.2026 20

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Andrei Kolesnikov

Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way

Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way

The European economy is falling behind. At the turn of the century, EU labor productivity was on a steady upward trajectory and had reached almost 95...

23.09.2026 20

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Andrew McAfee

Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way

Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way

The European economy is falling behind. At the turn of the century, EU labor productivity was on a steady upward trajectory and had reached almost 95...

22.09.2026 30

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Andrew McAfee

The Stalemate With Iran Is Not Sustainable

The Stalemate With Iran Is Not Sustainable

A Diplomatic Strategy to End the War

22.09.2026 10

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Richard Haass And Carolyn Kissane

Syria’s Imperiled Transition

Syria’s Imperiled Transition

In Syria today, nearly everyone seems to be struggling. People of all classes and backgrounds can barely afford food, rent, utilities—the basics of...

21.09.2026 20

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Sam Heller

The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy

The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy

America Is Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Atomic Age

21.09.2026 20

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Christopher Laroche And Ankit Panda

Shrink the UN

Shrink the UN

The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate...

21.09.2026 10

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Richard Gowan

China Still Has What America Needs

China Still Has What America Needs

The Trump-Xi Summit Gives Washington a Chance to Buy Time

21.09.2026 20

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Adam S. Posen

Shrink the UN

Shrink the UN

The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate...

20.09.2026 20

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Richard Gowan

China Still Has What America Needs

China Still Has What America Needs

The Trump-Xi Summit Gives Washington a Chance to Buy Time

20.09.2026 20

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Adam S. Posen

Ebola Is Only the Beginning

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stunning indictment of the state of global health security. The epidemic should have...

17.09.2026 30

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Stephanie Psaki

America’s Attrition Trap

The U.S. Military Needs to Build Up Its Endurance

17.09.2026 40

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Nadia Schadlow

China’s Purges Are Working as Designed

For two decades, scholars believed that the main reason Chinese communist rule endured into the twenty-first century—whereas every communist regime...

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Andrew Mertha

Cuba’s Point of No Return

The Country Is Collapsing Even as Its Regime Survives

16.09.2026 20

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Will Freeman

Trump and Xi Can’t Stop the U.S.-China Spiral

The Delusions of Summitry and the Limits of Personalist Diplomacy

15.09.2026 40

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Orville Schell

The New Chinese Way of Cyberwar

How Beijing Will Weaponize Digital Chokepoints

15.09.2026 30

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Anne Neuberger

The Crumbling Defense of Europe

The United States appears ready to pull much of its military from Europe. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, a key policy...

14.09.2026 30

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Franklin C. Miller

The New Chinese Way of Cyberwar

How Beijing Will Weaponize Digital Chokepoints

14.09.2026 50

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Anne Neuberger

Putin Will Not Yield

Pressure and Pain Won’t Sap Russia’s Resolve in Ukraine

14.09.2026 20

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Michael Kimmage And Maria Lipman

Europe’s Hidden Trade Advantage

Slow and Steady Wins the Negotiation

13.09.2026 20

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Jonas Nahm

Iran’s Second Front

The Houthis’ Bold Advance Has Transformed the Middle East’s Wars

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April Longley Alley And Allison Minor

The Other War on Terror

9/11 and the Unraveling of American Democracy

11.09.2026 50

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Daniel Benjamin And Steven N. Simon

The Case for Letting China In

Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and...

10.09.2026 20

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Brian Deese

The Case for Letting China In

Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and...

09.09.2026 40

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Brian Deese

The Coming Risks to Russian Power

Can Moscow Adjust Its Foreign Policy for a Changing World?

09.09.2026 40

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Andrey Kortunov

Somebody Else’s Civil War

Call it a city on four legsheading for murder. ...New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling...

09.09.2026 20

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Michael Scott Doran

Winning Ugly

My first mission as a paramilitary officer with the CIA was against a top-ten al Qaeda target. It was the autumn of 2009, and I had been deployed in...

09.09.2026 20

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Elliot Ackerman

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osama bin Laden and the...

09.09.2026 30

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Nelly Lahoud

How al-Qaeda Ended

Terrorists Sometimes Defeat Themselves

09.09.2026 20

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Audrey Kurth Cronin

The Right Way to Sanction Russia

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western countries responded with aggressive economic restrictions, freezing Russia’s official foreign exchange...

08.09.2026 20

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Robin Brooks And Ben Harris

How al-Qaeda Ended

Terrorists Sometimes Defeat Themselves

08.09.2026 20

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Audrey Kurth Cronin

The Rise and Fall of Global Jihadism

Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in...

07.09.2026 20

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Daniel Byman