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The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing

It’s Not the Drones—It’s Everything Around Them

David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic

Can the Private Sector Save Vietnam?

Why the Communist Party Wants Business to Boom

Edmund J. Malesky and Viktoria Zlomanova

How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention

The Continent Must Overcome Its Russia Predicament

Alexander Gabuev

Build a Palestinian State

How to Fulfill the Promise of Self-Determination and Stabilize the Middle East

Ilan Goldenberg and Liam Hamama

The Transatlantic Alliance Can’t Survive Without Trust

Washington Dismisses NATO’s Value at Its Own Peril

Wolfgang Ischinger

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Losing the War of the Future

How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage

Paul Scharre

Iran’s New Grand Strategy

How a Remade Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East

Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr

The Afghanistan Reckoning

Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting

Carter Malkasian

The Mirage of China’s Military Edge

Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive

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A Better Way to Build AI

America’s Dominance Depends on Getting Local Communities on Board

Sarah Kreps

The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must

What Thucydides Really Thought About Power

Jonathan Kirshner

The Military and the Republic

What America’s Armed Forces Can—and Cannot—Do for Democracy

Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Peter D. Feaver, and Andrew Kragie

The End of Hamas

And the Convenient Fiction of Continued Menace

Jaser AbuMousa

Why Trump’s Congo Deal Is Falling Apart

The Limits of “America First” in Africa

Joshua Z. Walker, Reagan Miviri, and Jason K. Stearns

Worse Than an Axis

Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous

Thomas Wright

How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance

If Iran Gets a New Deal With America, So Must Israel

Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov

Who Is China?

Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis

Ian Johnson

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The AI Race Nobody Can Win

A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby

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The Broken Nuclear Umbrella

What Comes After Extended Deterrence

Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

Extreme Weather Will Upend U.S.-China Competition

The Cost of Falling Behind on Climate Adaptation

Alice C. Hill and Mengye Zhu

Why America Gets Africa Wrong

U.S. Policy Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Zachariah Mampilly

Heartland vs. Rimland

The Battle Lines in the War for the Next Global Order

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands

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Are America and China Condemned to Repeat History?

The Warnings of Great-Power Wars Past

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

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Worlds of Islam: A Global History

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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States

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Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia

By Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon

Europe Goes Its Own Way

Drifting From America, the Continent Is Rearming and Reordering Itself

Marina Henke, Iren Marinova, and Till Knobloch

A Democracy Safe for the World

How to Fix a Broken System

Sheri Berman

The Afghanistan Reckoning

Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting

Carter Malkasian

Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars?

Ukraine Isn’t the Only Battlefield Shaping Autonomous Warfare

Nate Allen and Rida Lyammouri

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How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention

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How to Fulfill the Promise of Self-Determination and Stabilize the Middle East

Ilan Goldenberg and Liam Hamama

The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must

What Thucydides Really Thought About Power

Jonathan Kirshner

The Transatlantic Alliance Can’t Survive Without Trust

Washington Dismisses NATO’s Value at Its Own Peril

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The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing

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Iran’s New Grand Strategy

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True North?

Debating How to Deal With Pyongyang

Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit; Lee Shin-wha; Nicholas Eberstadt, Robert Joseph, and David Maxwell; Victor Cha

The Next Russia Threat

Moscow’s Military Power After Ukraine

Michael Kofman

Iran Didn’t Win the War

Tehran Is Still Losing the Long Game

James F. Jeffrey

The Mirage of China’s Military Edge

Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive

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How China Wins the Future

Beijing’s Strategy to Seize the New Frontiers of Power

Why “China First” Will Fail

The Limits and Lessons of a Transactional Foreign Policy

Patricia M. Kim

New Prime Minister, Same Problem

Why the Consequences of Brexit Can No Longer Be Avoided

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