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The Chokepoint Trap
Niall Ferguson, the leading historian of empire, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and AI scholar Lisa Klassen offer a nov…
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Xi’s Gang of Three
How China’s leader divides power between his two most trusted lieutenants.…
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How Russia Sees the World Now
Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities…
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The Limits of American Power
William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and a major figure in American military affairs, uses history and his perso…
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The Fog of Tech
Mara Karlin, a defense policy expert, argues that war planners’ obsession with new technologies like AI and drones has t…
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The China Price
In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a…
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“Earth Satellites and Foreign Policy”
The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit an…
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AI Is a Choice
Alex Imas, Mohamed El-Erian, and James Manyika, leading voices at the intersection of business and technology, argue tha…
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Empires of AI
In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Googl…
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The Iran War Has Changed the World Forever
Some dramatic long-term consequences are just beginning to come into view.…
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A Better “America First”
Charles Kupchan, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, argues that many aspects of Trump's foreign policy…
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Europe’s Credibility Gap
Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Class Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece argui…
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The Nuclear Deal That Could Save NATO
Former U.S. NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder argues that the scramble to shore up Europe's conventional defense risks overloo…
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The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Richard Fontaine, former members of the National Security Council, argue that the members of w…
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A Democratic Reckoning in India
The battle on the streets over the foundations of the state.…
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Ukraine Can Turn Imminent Peril to Its Advantage
How a true “energy cease-Fire” can curb Putin.…
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China’s Next Frontier
Technology experts Kathleen Curlee and Sam Bresnick argue that China is catching up to the United States in space, comme…
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Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race
Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodsky, researchers at Carnegie’s China AI Initiative, argue that China is betting that AI…
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Iran’s Theory of Victory
Tehran’s fight for great-power status in the post-American Middle East.…
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