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Can Israel End Its Forever Wars?

The Netanyahu Doctrine Could Outlast Netanyahu

How Does the World Really View China?

The Trouble With Overestimating Beijing’s Soft Power

The Real Risk of a Trade War With Canada

America Needs Its Neighbors to Counter China

The Powder Keg in Outer Space

How to Head Off a New Arms Competition

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The Price of Russian Paranoia

Spy Hunting Shores Up Putin’s Power—but Paralyzes the State

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

The Road Through Damascus

How Syria Can Capitalize on the Post-Hormuz Economy

Jesse Marks and Nicholas Lyall

A Great Rebalancing Is Coming

Who Will Bear the Costs of a Global Trade Adjustment?

Leave Europe to the Europeans

The Case for a U.S. Military Drawdown

Jennifer Kavanagh and Justin Logan

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What Does China Want?

A Conversation With Jessica Chen Weiss

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India Is Sticking With America—for Now

But Trump’s Coercion Could Force Modi’s Hand

The Impossible Middle East

After the Iran War, the Region Has No Good Options

Dina Esfandiary, Becca Wasser, and Ziad Daoud

Afghanistan After America

A Conversation With Laurel Miller and Graeme Smith

The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy

Transforming the Military Has Changed the War—and Upended Politics

Nataliya Gumenyuk

Book Reviews

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What Was the War on Terror?

A Quarter Century of Fear and Fantasy

Reviewed by Philip H. Gordon

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Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

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The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling Into Disorder

By Eswar S. Prasad

Barry Eichengreen

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The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear

By Ho-fung Hung

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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

By Antonia Senior

America Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons

Expanding the Stockpile Could Weaken Deterrence

Erin D. Dumbacher

Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail

Trump’s War Has Brought American Strategy to a Dead End

The New Right’s Grand Strategy After Trump

How Civilizationism Would Upend America’s Role in the World

Leonard A. Schuette

How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon

The Real History of Beijing’s Rare-Earth Dominance

Gloria Xiong and Jessica Chen Weiss

The Myth of Eurasia

Why Russia Can’t Shed Its Imperial Delusions

The End of Thailand’s Long Stalemate?

How Conservatives Finally Won and Took Over the State

America’s Missing Military Revolution

Why Washington Still Risks Losing the Tech Race

Democracies Need Creative Destruction

How to Make Government Work Again

Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway

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Editor’s Pick

How Alliances Survive

The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order

Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi

Why Criminals Love the Chinese Economy

And Why Beijing Can’t—or Won’t—Crack Down

The End of the American Middle East

Iran and the Last Gasp of a Failed Order

How AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military

The Best Soldiers Know How to Think for Themselves

Emelia S. Probasco

Is a Post-American World Inevitable?

A Conversation With Kurt Campbell, Rush Doshi, and Mark Leonard

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