The Age of Inflation

Easy money, hard choices. | Continue reading


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Ukraine’s Path to Victory: How the Country Can Take Back All Its Territory

How the country can take back all its territory. | Continue reading


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Ukraine’s Path to Victory: How the Country Can Take Back All Its Territory. | Continue reading


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How to Avoid a War over Taiwan

Threats, assurances, and effective deterrence. | Continue reading


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The World According to Xi Jinping

What China’s ideologue in chief really believes. | Continue reading


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The Downside of Imperial Collapse: When Great Powers Fall, Chaos and War Rise

When empires or great powers fall, chaos and war rise. | Continue reading


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Xi Jinping’s Quest for Order

Security at home, influence abroad. | Continue reading


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Surviving the Era of Catastrophic Risk

Surviving the era of catastrophic risk. | Continue reading


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The Collateral Damage of a Long Economic War

Sanctions have hurt but not felled Russia—and are harming the Global South | Continue reading


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The Weakness of Xi Jinping

Hubris and paranoia threaten China’s future. | Continue reading


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Nobody wants the current world order

How all the major powers—even the United States—became revisionists. | Continue reading


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What Makes a Power Great – The Real Drivers of Rise and Fall

The real drivers of rise and fall. | Continue reading


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How the System Was Rigged

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty. | Continue reading


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What If Ukraine Wins?

Victory in the war would not end the conflict with Russia. | Continue reading


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Australia Passed Gun Control: The Port Arthur Massacre and Beyond

With gun control back on the agenda in the United States, the Australian story is instructive for a number of reasons. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 1 year ago

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

Olmsted focuses on the role played by Western media moguls in ignoring the threat from Adolf Hitler and appeasing him. | Continue reading


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How to Prevent a Repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis

How to prevent a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis in Ukraine. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

The Return of Pax Americana? Putin’s War Is Fortifying the Democratic Alliance

Putin’s war is fortifying the democratic alliance. | Continue reading


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When Migrants Become Weapons: The Long History and Worrying Future of the Tactic

The long history and worrying future of a coercive tactic. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East

Economic despair and the triumph of the China model. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

The Toll of Economic War How Sanctions on Russia Will Upend the Global Order

How sanctions on Russia will upend the global order. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

The Problem Child of Europe (1940)

The journalist Dorothy Thompson explains Hitler’s Nazi revolution at the start of World War II. | Continue reading


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The False Promise of Arming Insurgents: US' Spotty Record Warrants Caution in UA

The lessons of America’s checkered Cold War record. | Continue reading


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Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women

Why autocrats fear women. | Continue reading


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Can the West save Kyiv Without Starting a war with Russia? | Continue reading


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The Anti-Dollar Axis

Russia and China's plans to evade U.S. economic power. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault [2014]

Conventional wisdom in the West blames the Ukraine crisis on Russian aggression. But this account is wrong: Washington and its European allies actually share most of the responsibility, having spent decades pushing east into Russia’s natural sphere of interest. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

What If Russia Loses?

A defeat for Moscow won’t be a clear victory for the West. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

America Must Do More to Help Ukraine Fight Russia

A lend-lease plan for the Ukrainian military | Continue reading


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The Cyber Social Contract: How to Rebuild Trust in a Digital World

How to rebuild trust in a digital world. | Continue reading


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Russia seeks to stop NATO’s expansion, not to annex more territory. | Continue reading


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Americas Cyber Reckoning

How to fix a failing strategy. | Continue reading


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By Keeping the Wrong Secrets, DC misses the real threat

How Washington misses the real security threat. | Continue reading


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Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy

The new geopolitics of energy. | Continue reading


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The Fall and Rise of Techno-Globalism

Democracies should not let the dream of the open Internet die. | Continue reading


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The Inevitable Rivalry

America, China, and the tragedy of great-power politics. | Continue reading


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The Technopolar Moment How Digital Powers Will Reshape the Global Order

How digital powers will reshape the global order. | Continue reading


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Why China Is Alienating the World

Backlash is building—but Beijing can’t seem to recalibrate. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

Taiwan and the Fight for Democracy, by Tsai Ing-Wen

A force for good in the changing international order. | Continue reading


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The End of China’s Rise

Beijing is running out of time to remake the world. | Continue reading


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The Forever Virus

Global herd immunity is now unreachable. How should governments' strategy in the fight against COVID-19 change in response? | Continue reading


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Resistance Is Futile: The War on Terror Supercharged State Power

The war on terror supercharged state power | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

How Democratic Is the World’s Largest Democracy? Narendra Modi’s N

A review of Christophe Jaffrelot's "Modi's India", which examines the rise of Hindu nationalism and ethnic democracy under Narendra Modi. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

Them and Us

How America lets its enemies hijack its foreign policy | Continue reading


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The Promise and Peril of Crowdsourced Intelligence

Technology is enabling nonstate actors to collect and analyze intelligence—sometimes more easily, more quickly, and better than governments. | Continue reading


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How Americans think about trade

Winners, losers, and the psychology of globalization. | Continue reading


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China’s Sputnik Moment?

How Washington boosted Beijing's quest for tech dominance. | Continue reading


@foreignaffairs.com | 2 years ago

Nuclear Energy Will Not Be the Solution to Climate Change

When it comes to averting the effects of climate change, the cutting edge of nuclear technology will prove to be too little, too late. | Continue reading


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