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H3 How India Can Placate America
H3 The Promise and Peril of Recognizing Palestine
H3 The Right Way to Wield America’s Economic Power
H3 Is America Breaking the Global Economy?
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H3 Why War Is Likely to Once Again Tear the Country Apart
H3 Sudan and the New Age of Conflict
H3 The UAE’s Secret War in Sudan
H3 Sudan’s Manmade Famine
H3 Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan
H3 Why Force Fails to Stop Nuclear Proliferation
H3 Georgia’s Warning for Ukraine
H3 The Post-Iranian Middle East
H3 How Russia Could Exploit a Vacuum in Europe
H3 A Conversation With Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi
H3 The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants
H3 The Real AI Race
H3 American Gun Violence Goes Global
H3 The Islamic Republic’s New Lease on Life
H3 Book Reviews
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H3 North Korea’s Second Chance?
H3 AI and the Trust Revolution
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H3 How Trump Can Finish the Job in Iran—and the Middle East
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H4 What Xi’s Purges Do—and Don’t—Mean for Beijing’s Ambitions
H4 The Dangerous Erosion of Deterrence
H4 The Fate of Legal Protections Is Tied to the Fate of Democracy
H4 What the Kremlin Will Sacrifice in Pursuit of Victory in Ukraine
H4 National Security in a World of Proliferating Risks and Eroding Constraints
H4 Why the Region Is Leaning Toward China
H4 America in a Post-American World
H4 Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power
H4 In a Reversal, It’s Time for New Delhi to Be Generous With Washington
H4 Can a Two-State Solution Still Emerge From a One-State Reality?
H4 Without Statecraft, Even the Most Powerful Tools Will Be Self-Defeating
H4 What an Age of Economic Uncertainty Will Mean for the World
H4 How Regional Power Politics Are Fueling Deadly Wars
H4 How International Pressure Can Stop the Genocidal Violence
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H4 How America Can Stop Money Launderers From Funding Africa’s Worst Civil War
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H4 The Dangers of a Rapid Drawdown in American Forces
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