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Progressive Internationalism Against American Interests March 20, 2025

Calls for a progressive-oriented U.S. foreign policy have been gradually growing since at least the end of the Obama administration. One such argument recently made in Foreign Affairs by Megan Stewart, Jonathan Petkun, and Mara Revkin epitomizes the ...

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We’ll Miss Globalism When It’s Gone March 20, 2025

I have, like I suspect many readers, been in quite a bad mood for the last two months. My go-to joke explaining why — which I feel like should land with readers of this newsletter — has become: “I didn’t realize quite how much my overall optimism abo...

globalism

An EU Economic Security Network Essential March 19, 2025

The success of the EU’s response to challenges posed by Russia, China and Trump 2.0 will hinge on the bloc’s ability to establish itself as a global geoeconomics power—leveraging its economic strength to pursue foreign policy goals. ...

Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025

The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...

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economics

The Global Populist Right Has a MAGA Problem March 18, 2025

Nigel Farage loves Donald Trump. The 60-year-old’s day job is as the parliamentary representative for the English seaside town of Clacton, and as the leader of Reform, the latest of his populist right-wing parties. ...

In a Divided World, Momentum Behind Negotiations Grows March 17, 2025

At a time of rising geopolitical tensions and deepening global fragmentation, the Ukraine war has proved particularly divisive. From the start, the battle lines were clearly drawn: Russia on one side, Ukraine and the West on the other, and much of th...

geopolitics

Ukraine’s Unsung Military Heroes Can Lead the Nation’s Path Forward March 17, 2025

The intricacies of the battlefields in the Ukraine-Russia war are numerous, as most military leaders and politicians continue to do nothing but complicate the situation. Coupled with a dysfunctional approach to conflict resolution, the issue of milit...

Ukraine

Politics

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Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict in the Congo March 14, 2025

The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.” Eastern Congo is rich i...

U.S.-Saudi Cooperation Could Fortify Critical Mineral Supply Chains. March 13, 2025

President Trump returned to office facing a weakened defense industrial base, strained by the Ukraine war and threatened by China’s grip on critical inputs. Dependence on competitors like China for materials that power essential commercial and milita...

China Can Live With Trump’s Tariffs March 12, 2025

By turning his back on US allies and global institutions, Trump will help Xi Jinping advance his plan for a China-centric world...

The Future of the U.S.-China AI Race March 12, 2025

Six months ago, few in the West aside from obsessive AI professionals had heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab founded barely more than a year and a half ago. Today, DeepSeek is a global sensation attracting the attention of heads of state, g...

Europe’s Path to Global Influence March 12, 2025

To truly become a great power, the bloc will need a political structure that enables it to exercise the leadership long provided by the U.S. ...

European Union

U.S. Expands Global Arms Dominance; Russia Declines March 11, 2025

Russia

America’s and Ukraine’s Interests Don’t Align March 11, 2025

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s blowup in the Oval Office was the end of what should have been an obvious chain of events. The press has reported for the past two months on what increasingly dire relations between ...

Can China Keep Winning Without Fighting? March 10, 2025

Xi Jinping has mastered Sun Tzu’s strategy of subduing without fighting to consolidate global power but perhaps for not much longer ...

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The Foreign Policy Throughline of Trump’s First Month? China March 10, 2025

The Trump administration’s outreach to its Russian counterparts to settle the Ukraine war represents its latest attempt to refocus American foreign policy on China. Inheriting a world order defined by Sino-Russian rapprochement, Iranian regional aggr...

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How the Globalists Dug Their Own Grave March 10, 2025

So this is how the so-called liberal international order ends. Not with a bang, but with a Trump. ...

globalism

Trump’s Challenge to International Order March 06, 2025

US President Donald Trump has cast serious doubts on the future of the postwar international order. In recent speeches and UN votes, his administration has sided with Russia, an aggressor that launched a war of conquest against its peaceful neighbour...

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The Hells Angels Have Arrived in Latin America With a Low Profile March 05, 2025

In Brazil, walking through majority-black Salvador da Bahia’s working-class neighborhoods, one can now spot garages with the Hells Angels’ painted insignia, in Portuguese and English. Their compounds are confined, far from commercial areas, though a ...

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Politics

Broken Promises and Their Consequences March 04, 2025

More than three decades after the Cold War ended, the United States continues to treat Russia as an existential enemy rather than a potential partner. This hostility, deeply embedded in Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is not just ideologic...

Counterterrorism Shortcomings in the Sahel March 04, 2025

As the global epicenter of Salafi-jihadi activity, the Sahel in 2023 accounted for 26 percent of global terrorist attacks, which caused 47 percent of terrorist-related deaths. ...

Terrorism

The First Contours of the Trump World Order March 04, 2025

Friday’s Oval Office meeting between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unprecedented, and not in a good way, for the United States, Ukraine, Europe’s future, and America’s global credi...

Ukraine

Russia

The Coming Age of Territorial Expansion March 04, 2025

Since the mid-twentieth century, the power dynamics and system of alliances that made up the postwar global order provided a strong check on campaigns to conquer and acquire territory—an otherwise enduring feature of human history....

foreign policy

African Democracy Is in Retreat March 03, 2025

When the Soviet Union collapsed nearly a quarter-century ago, it led to triumphalism about the "end of history" and the ultimate victory of liberal democracy over other forms of government. Since then, it's been a difficult couple of decades for glob...

Africa

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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