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Heather A. Conley - The Lost Art of Coercion
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Richard Wike - America and Iran’s Strange Moment of Opportunity
Ali Vaez - How to Win the Defense Innovation Contest
Colin H. Kahl and Tobias Vestner - The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing
David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic - Build a Palestinian State
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Wolfgang Ischinger - A Better Way to Build AI
Sarah Kreps - The Military and the Republic
Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Peter D. Feaver, and Andrew Kragie - The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must
Jonathan Kirshner - Why Trump’s Congo Deal Is Falling Apart
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Sebastian Mallaby - How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance
Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov - Worse Than an Axis
Thomas Wright - Extreme Weather Will Upend U.S.-China Competition
Alice Hill and Mengye Zhu - Iran Didn’t Win the War
James F. Jeffrey - America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil
Ian Bremmer - Heartland vs. Rimland
Michael Beckley and Hal Brands - A Democracy Safe for the World
Sheri Berman - True North?
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Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press - Losing the War of the Future
Paul Scharre - Why “China First” Will Fail
Patricia M. Kim - Why America Gets Africa Wrong
Zachariah Mampilly - The Afghanistan Reckoning
Carter Malkasian - How to Survive the AI Shock
James A. Davidson and Matthew J. Slaughter - When Workers Lose to AI
Jacob Leibenluft - China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting
Richard N. Haass and David Sacks - When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate
Hussein Banai - The Quiet Rise of the Plastics Crisis
Winnie Lau - Iran Won the War but May Lose the Peace
Nate Swanson - The Coming Quantum National Security Crisis
Anne Neuberger - NATO’s Permanent Crisis
Florence Gaub and Jonathan Heist - The Middle East Power Paradox
Dana Stroul - The False Promise of U.S.-China Stability
Jonathan A. Czin - Is Cuba Next?
Michael J. Bustamante and Ricardo Zuniga - Silicon Valley’s Bad Bet on the Gulf
Aaron Bartnick - The Fault Lines in China’s Power
Ely Ratner and Nick Danby - How America Lost Command of the Commons
Isaac Kardon - Don’t Give Up on Global Order
Philip H. Gordon - Greeted as Liberators?
Janina Dill - The Day After in Cuba
Ricardo Zuniga - The American Military’s Coming Marathon
Thomas G. Mahnken - The Transatlantic Crucible
David V. Gioe - The End of Foreign Aid Is Not the End of Development
Mark Suzman - Cuba’s Only Choice
Michael J. Bustamante and Ricardo Herrero - The Right Way for Europe to Spend More on Defense
Luis Simón and Stephen G. Brooks - Iran and the Forever War Trap
Lawrence D. Freedman - The G-2 Reality
Zheng Wang - Japan’s Point of No Return
Daisuke Kawai - The Middle Power Delusion
Michael Beckley - Hormuz Is a Warning for the Indo-Pacific
Lynn Kuok - The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace
Thant Myint-U - Does Trump Have a Strategy?
A. Wess Mitchell - Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea
Gideon Rose - The Not-So-Quiet American
Victor Gaetan - A New Order for the Gulf
David B. Roberts - Spheres by Default
Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper - The View From the Front Row of the Trump-Xi Summit
Orville Schell - What the Trump-Xi Summit Won’t Solve
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Georgia Levenson Keohane - How Europe Found Its Nerve
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Sam Chetwin George - The Illusion of Reciprocity
Inu Manak and Allison Smith - The Promise and Peril of U.S.-China Summitry
Robert D. Hormats - America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China
Henrietta Levin - Can Trump Get a New Nuclear Deal With Iran?
Matthew Sharp and Nate Swanson - China Is Squandering a Golden Opportunity
David Shambaugh and Steven F. Jackson - How America Can Coerce the Cartels
Benjamin Lessing - When Two Superpowers Meet
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Benjamin H. Bradlow - The Stakes of Trump vs. Xi
Kurt M. Campbell - Why China Waits
Amanda Hsiao and Bonnie S. Glaser - America and the Gulf Still Need Each Other
Daniel Benaim and Elisa Catalano Ewers - This Is Not the World Russia Wants
Hanna Notte - Iran’s New Oil Weapon
Gregory Brew - Trump’s China Trap
Michael Kovrig - Only Congress Can Fix American Trade
Trevor Sutton - The End of the Axis of Abraham
H. A. Hellyer - The Price of Peace With Iran
Thomas R. Pickering, Gabrielle Rifkind, and Paul Ingram - China and America Are Courting Nuclear Catastrophe
Tong Zhao - Libya’s False Peace
Jalel Harchaoui and Frederic Wehrey - What Drove Down America’s Fentanyl Deaths?
Peter Reuter, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Keith Humphreys - The New Resource Curse
Rabah Arezki, Frederick van der Ploeg, and Michael L. Ross - The Transatlantic MAGA Fantasy
Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage - How the War Saved the Iranian Regime
Danny Citrinowicz - The Real Threat to Taiwan
Eyck Freymann - Let Iran Defeat Itself
Richard Nephew - The Disposable Oligarchs
Christopher Hartwell and Tricia D. Olsen - The Iran War’s Threat to Turkey
Asli Aydintasbas - The Other China Flash Point
Henrietta Levin - Is America Losing the High Ground?
Jake Sullivan - How China and Russia Can Exploit the Iran War
Jon B. Alterman and Ali Vaez - America Should Be Israel’s Partner, Not Its Patron
Raphael BenLevi - The New Trade Order
Robert E. Lighthizer - Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
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