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Trump, Xi, and the Specter of 1914

How America and China Can Avoid the Blunders That Led to World War I

Odd Arne Westad

Why Russia Is Losing the Sahel

Moscow’s Missteps Offer a Warning—and an Opening—for Washington

Frederic Wehrey and Andrew S. Weiss

Will Iran Turn to Terrorism?

Why a Desperate Regime Might Go After Soft Targets

Matthew Levitt

China Is Squeezing Southeast Asia

As Imbalances Grow, a Backlash Is Brewing

Jessica C. Liao and Zenel Garcia

Give Me Liberty and Give Me Taxes

Why Democracies Love Taxation—and Autocracies Hate It

Vanessa Williamson

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How China Forgot Karl Marx

The Chinese Economy Runs on Labor Exploitation

Yasheng Huang

Trump, Xi, and the Case for Strategic Calm

How America Can Take Advantage of the Status Quo

Ryan Hass

The Lasting Wounds of the War in Ukraine

Both Sides Will Struggle to Reintegrate Millions of Veterans

Dara Massicot

The Two Israels

A Socioeconomic Divide Shapes the Country’s Politics—and Its Aggressive Foreign Policy

Eran Yashiv

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The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power

Stephen M. Walt

Asia After America

How U.S. Strategy Failed—and Ceded the Advantage to China

Zack Cooper

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System

Nadia Schadlow

The Multipolar Delusion

And the Unilateral Temptation

C. Raja Mohan

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Can Mexico Avoid a Confrontation With the United States?

How Sheinbaum Can Counter Trump’s Threats

Arturo Sarukhan

The Gulf Goes Backward

How the Iran War Is Returning the Region to a More Insular, Conflict-Prone Era

Amr Hamzawy

Europe Cannot Be a Military Power

Why Defense Integration Could Fracture the Continent

Hugo Bromley

How Takaichi Can Triumph

And What Others Can Learn From Japan’s Embrace of American Power

Michael J. Green

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How Strong Are Iran’s Strongmen?

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Why Russia Is Watching Iran Burn

The Kremlin Is in No Hurry to Save Its Closest Partner in the Middle East

Alexander Gabuev, Nicole Grajewski, and Sergey Vakulenko

Good Riddance to Corporate Social Responsibility

The End of an Unnecessary Fiction

Diane Coyle

The New Khamenei

How America and Israel Solved Iran’s Succession Problem

Akbar Ganji

The Hormuz Minefield

In the Strait, Iran Holds the Advantage—and America Has No Good Options

Caitlin Talmadge

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China’s Fragile Future

How Secure Is the CCP?

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The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History

By Vanessa S. Williamson

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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex

By Anthony King

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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

By Luke Kemp

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The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

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How Latin America Failed Venezuela

The Region’s Divisions Helped Precipitate U.S. Intervention

Jorge G. Castañeda

The Dangers of a Weak Iran

How a Wounded Islamic Republic Can Still Threaten the World

Afshon Ostovar

The Autonomous Battlefield

And Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for It

David Petraeus and Isaac C. Flanagan

The Curse of Middle-Sized Wars

In Iran, Trump Risks Falling Into a Familiar Trap

Robert D. Kaplan

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America Has No Good Options in Iran

Trump Needs an Off-Ramp

Ilan Goldenberg

How China Forgot Karl Marx

The Chinese Economy Runs on Labor Exploitation

Yasheng Huang

How America’s War on Iran Backfired

Tehran Will Now Set the Terms for Peace

Nate Swanson

How Iran Sees the War

External Escalation, Internal Consolidation

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

The Stunning Failure of Iranian Deterrence

And Why It Augurs a More Dangerous World

Nicole Grajewski and Ankit Panda

Trump, Xi, and the Case for Strategic Calm

How America Can Take Advantage of the Status Quo

Ryan Hass

Iran’s Drone Advantage

The Pentagon Copied Tehran’s Technology but Is Still Struggling to Keep Up

Michael C. Horowitz and Lauren A. Kahn

The Trouble With State Capitalism

America Is Adopting a Risky Model

Jami Miscik, Peter Orszag, and Theodore Bunzel

What Is the Endgame in Iran?

Trump Needs to Figure Out What He Wants—and Quickly

Colin H. Kahl

America’s Endangered AI

How Weak Cyberdefenses Threaten U.S. Tech Dominance

Fred Heiding and Chris Inglis

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The Dysfunctional Superpower

Can a Divided America Deter China and Russia?

Africa After Aid

Cuts Have Revealed the Continent’s Economic Resilience

Landry Signé

Why Escalation Favors Iran

America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew

Robert A. Pape

The Postliberal Superpower

What Abandoning Democratic Allies Will Cost America

Michael Carpenter

Iran’s Fair-Weather Friends

Why Shiite Militias in Iraq Are Mostly Staying on the Sidelines

Elizabeth Tsurkov

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