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Trump has killed American deterrence

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Stephen Holmes

South Carolina’s measles milestone is everyone’s problem

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Lisa Jarvis

The problem with making every election an existential threat

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David M. Drucker

Takaichi’s victory holds a foreign-policy lesson for the U.S.

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Chris Estep

Five key takeaways from Takaichi’s landslide victory

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

New world order or bust in the age of artificial intelligence

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Margrethe Vestager

Starmer is facing the final curtain as British prime minister

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Martin Ivens

India’s dwindling Maoist insurgency

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Shashi Tharoor

On Iran, U.S. needs a little more data and a lot less hubris

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Marc Champion

Memo to middle powers: Time for a reality check

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Stephen R. Nagy

Four years of war and Ukraine still needs the world

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Kumiharu Shigehara

The unthinkable is on the list of Japanese security options

05.02.2026 20

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Brad Glosserman

The FBI’s Georgia ballot raid is about 2026, not 2020

04.02.2026 2

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Mary Ellen Klas

Japan’s bond market has a warning for America

04.02.2026 2

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Allison Schrager

China is losing more than just two ports in Panama

04.02.2026 2

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Is this election really unpredictable?

04.02.2026 2

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Edo Naito

A cheat sheet to Takaichi’s snap election

03.02.2026 2

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Has Takaichi secured a win? Conservative voters are returning to the LDP.

03.02.2026 2

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Rintaro Nishimura

Goodbye arms control, hello nuclear anarchy

03.02.2026 2

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Andreas Kluth

Trump, Takaichi and Japan’s strategic crossroads

03.02.2026 3

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Hitoshi Suzuki

Where will a Democratic Japan go from here?

03.02.2026 2

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Kuni Miyake

Appeasing Trump only invites betrayal — as Europe's far right just learned

03.02.2026 3

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Stephen Holmes

Despite failed peace talks, Ukrainians find ‘Way Home’

02.02.2026 2

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Cristina Suvorina

The 10 best and worst U.S. foreign policy decisions

02.02.2026 3

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Andreas Kluth

Sony switches off the TV and that’s just fine

02.02.2026 10

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Gearoid Reidy

Bloody Minnesota and the normalization of state violence

02.02.2026 10

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Daron Acemoglu

A breakthrough law won’t kill Korea’s AI revolution

01.02.2026 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

The cost of silence: Japan’s diminishing relevance

30.01.2026 2

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Stephen R. Nagy

Is Streeting, a slick Eastender, Britain’s next prime minister?

30.01.2026 2

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Rosa Prince

The TikTok U.S. saga isn’t over — it’s just beginning

30.01.2026 2

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Dave Lee

Time for a revamped Japan-U.K. strategic architecture

29.01.2026 2

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Thomas O. Falk

'Mrs. Watanabe', Japan's FX investing housewife, gets an anime update

29.01.2026 2

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Gearoid Reidy

Japan is getting creative with its response to the weak yen

28.01.2026 1

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Gearoid Reidy And Daniel Moss

Can China reverse its demographic decline?

28.01.2026 2

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Yi Fuxian

The age of ‘middle powers,’ hegemons and hypocrites

28.01.2026 1

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Brad Glosserman

Has Greenland become Donald Trump’s Crimea?

27.01.2026 9

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Sergey Maidukov

Japan’s new ‘Centrist Reform Alliance’ is a misnomer

27.01.2026 8

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

After Davos, bond markets are wielding a new big stick

27.01.2026 9

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John Authers

Too many kids already know someone who’s been deepfaked

27.01.2026 50

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Abby Mccloskey

A message to the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day

26.01.2026 8

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Elliott Broidy

How Asia’s Gen-Z is losing out to China's $1 trillion surplus

26.01.2026 30

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Karishma Vaswani

The takeover of all media by artificial intelligence is coming

26.01.2026 40

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Charles Ferguson

A message to the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day

26.01.2026 40

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Elliott Broidy

A pope and a president offer competing Americanisms

25.01.2026 30

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Andreas Kluth

Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession

25.01.2026 40

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Catherine Thorbecke

‘Carney Doctrine’ seeks refuge in Beijing’s embrace

23.01.2026 30

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Stephen R. Nagy

Iran’s supreme leader trapped in a web of his own making

23.01.2026 40

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Pegah Banihashemi

Putin’s recent silence is worrying

23.01.2026 30

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Marc Champion

After Davos, middle powers matter more than ever

23.01.2026 20

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Kumiharu Shigehara

Takaichi’s strengths and the need for ‘strategic signaling’

22.01.2026 40

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Ken Jimbo