1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (389+ words) The Iran war has validated much of what U. S. analysts predicted, and it has exposed how little of that analysis shaped the decisions that led to the U. S. military campaign. Revisiting those assumptions is now essential ahead of any serious reckoning about…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1761+ words) Global dollar liquidity is driven far more by Asian manufacturing surpluses than by oil exporters stashing dollars away offshore." The glory days of the petrodollar are over. The foundation of the dollar's global role, it is sometimes argued, rests on…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (404+ words) One of the foundational documents of U. S. Cold War Strategy unnerved the president who commissioned it. The participants in the NSC-68 review believed that the U. S. government and public had reacted too passively to the growing Soviet threat. This passivity in turn…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (736+ words) The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will'along'with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025'has'earned a grim new superlative: the worst humanitarian year on record. Sam Vigersky is an international affairs fellow…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (375+ words) The Iran war's energy fallout is speeding up a debate in Japan and South Korea about expanding nuclear power capabilities, while the Trump administration's recent shift away from Asian allies has sparked dialogue about whether the two Northeast Asian powers…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (265+ words) In this light, American state capitalism as observed during the Trump administration can formally be described as: "An economic system in which the government operates as an activist investor, deal broker, and rentier, leveraging its power to (i) direct firm-level capital…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (973+ words) Militaries worldwide are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) while international cooperation flounders. With the United States and China less engaged at a recent AI military summit, middle powers appear to face a choice: lead the conversation or proceed into a…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1285+ words) From State And Local Webinars and Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program. We are pleased to have'Adam Segal'and'Margaret Woolley Busse'speak on artificial intelligence and its impact at both eh local and international'level.'We've'shared their bios. I will give you a few…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1346+ words) A UN aid convoy carrying life-saving food to El Fasher, a Sudanese city threatened by famine, never made it. The trucks'and what they were carrying'became a casualty of a war being fought, in part, using food. That incident in June…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (501+ words) Linda Robinson'an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert'tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the…...