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Milei's Inflation Success Story Could Be Argentina's Undoing
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (166+ words) World Politics Review Internationally, Argentine President Javier Milei remains a superstar who has delivered an economic miracle. Argentina's inflation has dropped from its peak of over 200 percent per year down to around 30 percent. His draconian austerity program has achieved a…...
The Iran War and the Future of Civilian Protection
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (217+ words) World Politics Review The incident has raised broad questions about how accountability and reviews are structured when AI-assisted targeting platforms are integrated into strike planning. It also calls into question the Defense Department's decision last year to gut an ambitious…...
The Strategic Folly of Pakistan's War With Afghanistan
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (359+ words) Siddhant Kishore is an independent geopolitical consultant specializing in open-source and geospatial intelligence. He previously worked as an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, where he tracked irregular warfare in the Middle East and South Asia. He…...
Can Class-Based Internationalism Defeat Trumpism?
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (342+ words) Elliot Waldman is the editor-in-chief of World Politics Review, having rejoined the company in 2025 after holding a series of progressively responsible roles here between 2018 and 2021. He previously covered U. S. politics and foreign policy for the Japan News Network and has reported…...
When Trump's "Clash of Civilizations' Worldview Collides With Reality
1+ week, 3+ day ago (339+ words) World Politics Review The Iran war is mostly on pause for now under the vague terms of what is at best a fragile ceasefire. Whether and when the war will officially come to an end remain open questions, as do…...
Turkey's High-Risk, High-Reward Wager in the Horn of Africa
1+ week, 4+ day ago (464+ words) World Politics Review Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first trip to Ethiopia in over a decade in February as part of a regional tour that included stops in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He received a red-carpet welcome in…...
The West's Consensus on Russian Oil Is Dead. Moscow Knows It
1+ week, 6+ day ago (273+ words) Candace Rondeaux is a professor with the Future Security Initiative at Arizona State University and a non-resident senior fellow with the Global Security program at New America. Her work focuses on geostrategic competition and geopolitical risk. She is the author…...
The High Cost of a Lawless World
2+ week, 3+ day ago (298+ words) World Politics Review The international legal order was always mainly about economics. It has provided a degree of predictability that has kept risk premiums affordable, stabilized shipping lanes and made long-term investment across borders rational. Markets never put a number…...
Western Militaries Must Relearn the Value of Cheap and Easy Solutions
2+ week, 5+ day ago (190+ words) World Politics Review Since Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Rheinmetall'Germany's leading defense contractor'has been one of the big winners from increases in defense spending in Germany. The company's share price has increased by 1, 700 percent since January 2022 and it is…...
Xi Has Reason to Take His Time on Taiwan
2+ week, 6+ day ago (435+ words) Mary E. Gallagher is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She was formerly the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of…...