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Why China Waits

Beijing Is Playing a Long Game on Taiwan

Amanda Hsiao and Bonnie S. Glaser

America and the Gulf Still Need Each Other

How U.S. Partnerships Can Survive the War in Iran

Daniel Benaim and Elisa Ewers

This Is Not the World Russia Wants

A Belligerent America Is Foiling Putin’s Strategy

Hanna Notte

Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear

But America Still Needs to Worry About Proliferation in East Asia

Victor Cha and Kristi Govella

Iran’s New Oil Weapon

How America Can Protect Itself—and the Global Economy

Gregory Brew

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The Tech High Ground

What It Will Take to Gain the Advantage Over China

Jake Sullivan

The Real War for Iran’s Future

Who Will Determine the Fate of the Islamic Republic?

Afshon Ostovar

The Third Islamic Republic

A War’s Unintended Consequences—for Iran, the Middle East, and the Global Order

Suzanne Maloney

How to Fight an Economic War

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Edward Fishman

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The Lessons of the Long Confucian Peace

Can Ideology Prevent War in East Asia?

Michael J. Gigante, Joshua Stone, Daniel Druckman, and Ming Wan

Trump’s China Trap

Why Xi Keeps Winning the Summitry Game

Michael Kovrig

The Return of Japanese Hard Power

Why Tokyo Is Bulking Up Its Defense Industrial Base

Matthew Finkel

Why the Next India-Pakistan War Will Escalate

And Why America Will Struggle to Contain It

Elizabeth Threlkeld

Only Congress Can Fix American Trade

Trump’s Tariff Mess Offers a Chance to Restore Legislative Oversight

Trevor Sutton

Xi’s Forever Purge

The Real Goal Behind China’s “Self-Revolution”

Neil Thomas and Shengyu Wang

The End of the Axis of Abraham

The Arab Gulf and Israel Have Different Visions for a New Middle East

H. A. Hellyer

China and America Are Courting Nuclear Catastrophe

The Consequences of Beijing’s Weapons Buildup

Tong Zhao

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Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan

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The Price of Peace With Iran

Washington Must Be Willing to Make Uncomfortable Concessions

Tom Pickering, Gabrielle Rifkind, and Paul Ingram

Libya’s False Peace

The Fractured Country Needs Political Unity, Not Washington’s Dealmaking

Jalel Harchaoui and Frederic Wehrey

The New Resource Curse

How Critical Minerals Will Scramble Geopolitics

Rabah Arezki, Frederick van der Ploeg, and Michael L. Ross

What Drove Down America’s Fentanyl Deaths?

China Might Have—but Wouldn’t Want Washington to Know

Peter Reuter, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Keith Humphreys

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The New Politics of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

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The Real Threat to Taiwan

America Is Preparing for the Wrong Kind of Crisis

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The Transatlantic MAGA Fantasy

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How the War Saved the Iranian Regime

The Unintended Consequences of the U.S.-Israeli Assault

Danny Citrinowicz

Let Iran Defeat Itself

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