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Japan's Point of No Return
54+ min ago (165+ words) DAISUKE KAWAI is Project Assistant Professor and Director of the Economic Security and Policy Innovation Program at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. And What Others Can Learn From Japan's Embrace of American Power…...
The Middle Power Delusion
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (560+ words) MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Head of Asia Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Not Choosing Is Not an Option The usual interpretation…...
Hormuz Is a Warning for the Indo-Pacific
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (459+ words) LYNN KUOK is Lee Kuan Yew Chair at the Brookings Institution. The Coming Contest for Asia's Waterways In late February, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, issuing warnings that "if anyone tries to…...
The Coming Contest for Asia's Waterways
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (450+ words) LYNN KUOK is Lee Kuan Yew Chair at the Brookings Institution. In late February, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, issuing warnings that "if anyone tries to pass, the heroes of the Revolutionary…...
The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (297+ words) THANT MYINT-U is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and the author of Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World. War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations The current moment underscores…...
Why Mexico's Cartels Are So Hard to Defeat
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (152+ words) DAVID MORA is Senior Analyst for Mexico at the International Crisis Group. The Real Test of Sheinbaum's Security Strategy How Sheinbaum Can Counter Trump's Threats A Smarter War on Drugs Begins With Selective Punishment How a Broken Asylum System Warped…...
Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (326+ words) GIDEON ROSE is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of How Wars End. Similar Wars End in Similar Ways But the strategy failed. The Soviets either could not or would not pressure the…...
The Not-So-Quiet American
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (152+ words) VICTOR GAETAN is Senior International Correspondent for National Catholic Register and the author of God's Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America's Armageddon. Pope Leo Takes the Vatican Where Francis Could Not How Francis Extended and Transformed the Vatican's Global…...
Orban's Fall and Europe's Rise | Foreign Affairs
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (293+ words) IVAN KRASTEV is Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and the Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The Dawn of a Strange New European Consensus When explaining his earlier electoral victories,…...
A New Order for the Gulf
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (299+ words) DAVID B. ROBERTS is Reader in Middle East Security Studies at King's College London, Head of the King's Institute for Applied Security Studies, and the author of Security Politics of the Gulf Monarchies. The Region Must Build Its Own Security, Not…...