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The Transatlantic World Will Never Be the Same March 24, 2025

Once upon a time, the United States saw the contest between democracy and authoritarianism as a singularly defining issue. It was this outlook, forged in the crucible of World War II, that created such strong transatlantic bonds. For many decades, th...

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U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025

U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...

South Africa

Trump administration

foreign policy

America Needs a National Economic Security Strategy March 17, 2025

As America confronts an ambitious economic and military peer in China, we desperately require a more coherent playbook for protecting and using our significant economic tools and assets. It is time to complement our national military strategy with a ...

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economics

MAGA Should Embrace a Stronger Europe March 11, 2025

American presidents since Kennedy have wanted Europe to shoulder more of the burden of its own security. But not until President Donald Trump has a U.S. leader succeeded in getting Europeans to want the same. Of course, the eruptions of a revanchist ...

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European Union

Talk Is Cheap (For Americans) February 25, 2025

Europeans were still reeling from a pair of unthinkable acts of American aggression when I arrived in London last week, and wow did they want to tell me all about it. ...

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European Union

Rubio’s Revolutionary Downsizing of America’s Role February 21, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is implementing a fundamental shift in America’s global role. In a recent lengthy interview with Megyn Kelly, Rubio argued that the mission of making America great again does not mean returning the U.S. to the pinnacle ...

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The Superpower Has Left the Building February 19, 2025

National security’s Burning Man took place this weekend, as foreign policy types from around the world gathered once again in Bavaria. The Munich Security Conference years ago burst the confines of the Bayerischer Hof hotel, where a medium-sized grou...

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Europe Braces for a Future Without 'Reliable' U.S. February 13, 2025

European allies are bracing this week for the answer to a question they’ve been dreading to ask: Can they really count on the United States?...

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European Union

Empire Redux: Ushering in New Imperial Age February 11, 2025

Xi wants Taiwan, Putin invaded Ukraine and now Trump eyes Panama Canal, Greenland and even Gaza ...

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U.S. is Reasserting Their Superpower Role February 04, 2025

As I have written elsewhere, I have always been suspicious of the idea of an emerging multipolar world order. This does not mean that it will never happen, but there is a difference between inevitable and imminent. At the time of writing the United S...

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Leveraging Competitive Strategies to Pivot North Korea in the Contest with China December 11, 2024

It is time for the US to shift from its long-standing position demanding North Korean denuclearization and embrace diplomacy underpinned by the framework of competitive strategies pioneered by Andrew Marshall, the founder and long-time leader of the ...

Save Yourselves. Vote for Donald Trump November 04, 2024

Voters across the pond are quickly realizing what a massive mistake they made by electing Sir Keir Starmer’s far-left, Labour government in the United Kingdom. America, you cannot afford to follow suit.It’s only been three months since the left-wing ...

U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Brutal Judge Iman Afshari September 27, 2024

The death sentences keep coming from Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In July, the court’s presiding judge, Iman Afshari, pronounced the dreaded verdict for Pakhshan Azizi, a prominent Iranian women’s rights activist and social worker, who ...

iran

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Islamism

The Age of Amorality February 29, 2024

Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?...

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