The era of increasingly free and extensive international trade, built on a rules-based system that the United States helped ...

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The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending to two percent of its GDP by 2027. The country’s new prime minister, ...

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And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

In struggling democracies around the world, small cliques of politicians, business elites, and politicians with business ...

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In his first term, Trump expanded Russian sanctions and shipped some arms to Ukraine, but he also made overtures of ...