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Astropolitics
The Invisible Arms Race

We’ve finally admitted that the space race is on. Time for bold steps to compete.

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Battle for Ukraine
The Best Ways to Help Ukraine

Scrap the Minsk agreement, hold the line on sanctions on Russia, and keep pressuring Ukraine’s leaders to clean up corruption.

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Election 2016
Donald Trump, Human Nature, and the Craving for Respect

Trump’s popularity raises disconcerting questions not only about American voters but about human nature as well.

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Russia and the West
The Hollow Men

Far from formidable, Vladimir Putin and those around him in the Kremlin have made themselves prisoners of the past.

Poets Laureate
Shakespeare or Cervantes?

Who would be the more apt Bard for America today?

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How the West Misjudged Russia Part 13
The Kremlin’s Triad as the Means of Survival

The West needs to understand that the Russian System is willing to fight for its survival, and that this fight could take many different forms.

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Countdown to the NATO Summit
The Return of “In-Between” Europe

Geopolitics has returned to Europe not because history has been forgotten, but because it has been remembered all too well.

Strategic Vision
Toward a Global Realignment

As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.

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How Russia Misjudged the West Part 12
What Minsk Means

Russia and the West offer a hybrid solution to hybrid war.

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The Islamic State
The Raqqa Imperative

The United States and its allies against the Islamic State face a major choice in its next target: the Iraqi city of Mosul, or the IS “capital” of Raqqa.

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