Essays
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Spy vs. Spy
The Game Is Afoot

How spies, terrorists, and criminals could leverage gamified intelligence networks to wreak havoc in the 21st century.

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That Vision Thing
Losing Our Grip, from Paris to Podgorica to London

Ralph Waldo Emerson gave us “the shot heard round the world”; Donald J. Trump, the shove felt cross the planet.

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The Kushner Controversy
The Dangers of Back Channels

A note on back channel diplomacy and the Cuban missile crisis.

Whole and Free
A Post-Nationalist Europe Is Not a Globalist Europe

Simple traps American critics of the EU should avoid.

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Of Immigration and Nation-States
Europe’s “Suspended Communities”

The imperative of integrating immigrant communities in Europe into their host nation’s cultures has taken on a new urgency.

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Russia & The West
Breathing Room for the Kremlin

The West’s new pragmatism could be a shot in the arm for Russia’s decaying system of personalized power.

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The Middle East
The Six Day and Fifty Years War

The war itself was quick and militarily decisive, but the political aftermath has been anything but.

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The Real Gap
Why Scholars and Policymakers Disagree

Those who study international security and those who practice it see the same world through very different conceptual lenses.

An Ornery American
Freeing My Inner Curmudgeon

Because it’s just not worth holding it back anymore.

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The Six-Day War
1967’s Gift to America

The importance of Israeli regional military supremacy to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

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