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20.03.2024 4

Foreign Policy

Matt Johnson

Khamenei’s Strategy to Dominate the Middle East Will Outlive Him

Earlier this month, Iran conducted elections for its parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a body of elderly clerics nominally responsible for...

20.03.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Europe Yearns to Be an Indo-Pacific Player 

After years in search of a geopolitical identity, Europe is aiming to become a much bigger player in one of the most contentious spaces in...

19.03.2024 2

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Keith Johnson

The G-7 Must Prepare Now for Trump

Planning is underway for the G-7 summit that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will host from June 13 to 15. As the 50th summit of the G-7, the...

19.03.2024 7

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Robin Niblett

Biden’s Israel Stance ‘That of a Disappointed Uncle’

Growing numbers of progressive U.S. leaders are calling for a different White House policy on Israel. The latest is Chuck Schumer, the Senate...

19.03.2024 10

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Ravi Agrawal

War-Zone GPS Spoofing Is Threatening Civil Aviation

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic Commercial aircraft flying in the Middle East and northern Europe have been caught up in...

19.03.2024 3

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Amy Mackinnon

Technology Alone Won’t Break the Stalemate in Ukraine

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic With U.S. aid to Ukraine stalled in Congress by an entrenched Republican Party and the...

19.03.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Gavin Wilde

Is TikTok’s Time Finally Up?

On March 13, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could result in TikTok’s being...

19.03.2024 1

Foreign Policy

Chinafile Contributors

Homophobic Laws Threaten U.S.-Ghana Ties

Unbeknownst to most Americans, for whom Africa scarcely registers as an afterthought, the United States has a long and deep history of special...

18.03.2024 20

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Howard W. French

China Is Selectively Bending History to Suit Its Territorial Ambitions

In the waters of the South China Sea, Chinese coast guard vessels have clashed with Philippine ships. In the air above the Taiwan Strait, Chinese...

18.03.2024 2

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Frederik Kelter

The Houthis Have Declared War on the Environment

On March 2, she was gone. The Belize-flagged, British-owned bulk carrier Rubymar sank in the narrow water lane between the coasts of Yemen and...

18.03.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Elisabeth Braw

Malaysia’s Forest City Went From Boomtown to Ghost Town

On an island in the Singapore Strait, a thicket of apartment blocks peers mournfully over the sea. A corps of green-shirted gardeners dutifully...

18.03.2024 2

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Joseph Rachman

There’s Nothing Between an Unstable President and the Nuclear Button

In the latest sign of his fascination with using nuclear weapons, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd in January that one of the...

18.03.2024 1

Foreign Policy

Adam Mount

South Korea Can Be a Democratic Leader

As democracy faces a growing assault around the world, South Korea is emerging as a country that is uniquely positioned to help lead a global...

18.03.2024 1

Foreign Policy

Damon Wilson, Lynn Lee

The World’s Biggest Crisis Is the End of Scarcity

Imagine an alien observer, sent undercover to Earth every half-century, to account for the status of human life on the planet. What would she...

17.03.2024 10

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Francis J. Gavin

Nuclear Fatalism in ‘Oppenheimer’ Is a Dead End

In a key scene of Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, addresses...

17.03.2024 2

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Jonathan Hunt

Vermeer’s Enduring Appeal for Filmmakers

It was this time last year when tourists were flooding into the Netherlands, and not just to see the tulip gardens. From February through June,...

16.03.2024 2

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Jordan Hoffman

Armenians Wonder Who to Trust After Lost Wars

YEREVAN, ARMENIA—Driving through the dark streets of Yerevan, Aram, a local taxi driver, vented his frustration: “We will hang [Prime Minister]...

16.03.2024 30

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Ani Chkhikvadze

How the World Failed Haiti

On March 5, Haiti’s acting prime minister took off on a chartered Gulfstream jet from a New Jersey airport with nowhere to go. On March 5,...

15.03.2024 2

Foreign Policy

Robbie Gramer

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