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Bosnia’s Unfinished Peace

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Elmira Bayrasli

The Trouble With Regime Change

What History Teaches About When and How to Pursue It

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Richard Haass

The Iranian Regime Could Fall

Many thousands of Iranians are again risking their lives to protest their authoritarian, theocratic regime. And as it has done during previous...

monday 10

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Jamsheed K. Choksy

Why Putin Still Prefers War

During the Cold War, few senior Soviet officials understood the dynamics of Soviet relations with the West as well as Valentin Falin. A diplomat...

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Andrei Kolesnikov

A World Without Rules

From the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has threatened to destabilize the international legal order. Early in his second term, he...

monday 20

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Oona A. Hathaway

The Myth of the AI Race

In July, the Trump administration released an artificial intelligence action plan titled “Winning the AI Race,” which framed global competition...

11.01.2026 10

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Colin H. Kahl

How Greenland Falls

What follows is a work of speculative fiction. Any resemblances to actual future events are purely coincidental. This scenario is plausible, but...

11.01.2026 20

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Jeremy Shapiro

Total Defense for an Era of Total War

When federal agents walked into the municipal utility building in Littleton, Massachusetts, in late 2023, they carried a warning that should have...

09.01.2026 8

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Alexander Noyes

The Fate of “America First”

It has been almost a year since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, promising at his inauguration, “During every single day of...

09.01.2026 10

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Reid Smith

The New Imperial Age

When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behaving “in a nineteenth-century fashion” after...

09.01.2026 40

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Aroop Mukharji

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About National Security

In the summer of 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton’s secretary of defense, Les Aspin, and William Perry, then the deputy secretary of defense,...

08.01.2026 10

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Margaret Mullins

The War That Outgrew Sudan

Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked as though the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach...

08.01.2026 6

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Alex De Waal