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Hormuz Is a Warning for the Indo-Pacific

The Coming Contest for Asia’s Waterways

The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace

War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations

Does Trump Have a Strategy?

A Conversation With A. Wess Mitchell

Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea

Similar Wars End in Similar Ways

Why Mexico’s Cartels Are So Hard to Defeat

The Real Test of Sheinbaum’s Security Strategy

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Spheres by Default

How U.S. Concessions Are Quietly Becoming Chinese Influence

Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise

The Dawn of a Strange New European Consensus

The Not-So-Quiet American

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A New Order for the Gulf

The Region Must Build Its Own Security, Not Buy It

David B. Roberts

What the Trump-Xi Summit Won’t Solve

A Conversation With Orville Schell

How Europe Found Its Nerve

Trump’s Overreach Has Finally Forged Continental Unity

Matthias Matthijs and Nathalie Tocci

Can Corporate America Protect Democracy?

In the Trump Era, CEOs Need to Define Redlines

Georgia Levenson Keohane

China Was Ready for the Age of Anarchy

Why Turbulence Will Make Beijing More Assertive

Sam Chetwin George

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Does Trump Have a Strategy?

A Conversation With A. Wess Mitchell

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The Illusion of Reciprocity

Trump’s Self-Defeating Trade Policy

Inu Manak and Allison Smith

America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China

How Trump and Xi Could Cement Beijing’s Advantage for Years to Come

Henrietta Levin

Why Violence Persists in Nigeria

And How Governance Reform Can Break the Cycle

The Promise and Peril of U.S.-China Summitry

What Xi Wants From Trump—and Trump Might Get From Xi

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