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America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil

A Conversation With Ian Bremmer

The Mirage of China’s Military Edge

Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive

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

Matthias Matthijs

How to Survive the AI Shock

A Policy Playbook to Avert Political Crisis

James A. Davidson and Matthew J. Slaughter

Losing the War of the Future

How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage

China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting

The Cost of Trump’s Equivocation

Richard Haass and David Sacks

When Workers Lose to AI

How the U.S. Government Can Soften the Blow of Automation

Jacob Leibenluft

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America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil

A Conversation With Ian Bremmer

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The Only Way to Save Europe

The Continent Must Act Like a Country

Maurizio Molinari

When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate

Equilibrium With Iran Is the Best America Can Do

The Quiet Rise of the Plastics Crisis

How to Counter an Insidious Global Threat

Iran Won the War but May Lose the Peace

Tehran Is Poised to Overplay Its Hand

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Are America and China Condemned to Repeat History?

The Warnings of Great-Power Wars Past

Reviewed by Elizabeth D. Samet

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

By Dani Rodrik

Barry Eichengreen

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Worlds of Islam: A Global History

By James McDougall

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

By Kori Schake

Lawrence D. Freedman

Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia

By Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon

Elizabeth Economy

China Is Pulling Up the Ladder Behind It

How Beijing’s Export Strategy Will Keep Poor Countries Poor

Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian

How France Falls to the Far Right

The Growing Odds and Seismic Consequences of a Le Pen–Bardella Victory

The Long Shadow of the Iran War

Trump’s Most Consequential Foreign Policy Mistake

Ian Bremmer and Firas Maksad

The Coming Quantum National Security Crisis

China and Russia Are Harvesting Encrypted Secrets—and Getting Closer to Cracking Them

The Middle East Power Paradox

How the Iran War Will Transform America’s Military Role

NATO’s Permanent Crisis

The Alliance Has Survived 80 Years of Disagreement—and It Will Survive Again

Florence Gaub and Jonathan Heist

The False Promise of U.S.-China Stability

Washington Will Come to Regret Its Stalemate With Beijing

Jonathan A. Czin

How to Beat an Autocrat

The Real Lessons of Orban’s Defeat

R. Daniel Kelemen and Daniel Ziblatt

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Editor’s Pick

How to Fight an Economic War

A Field Manual for a Ruptured World

The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence

And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability

Rose Gottemoeller

China’s Edifice Complex

Why Beijing Can’t Stop Wasteful Spending

The Real Problem With Global Trade

How China’s Currency Manipulation Is Warping the World Economy

Brad Setser and Shahin Vallée

Silicon Valley’s Bad Bet on the Gulf

Why the AI Build-Out Was Doomed From the Start

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