Essays
Inconvenient Truths
What Europe Gets Wrong About Energy Security

European reliance on Russian natural gas is in large part a self-inflicted wound.

Great Wars and Great Peaces
The Strategic Consequences of the World War

The lessons of World War I are still with us a century later—for better and for worse.

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Ideological Exceptionalism
Taking Iran’s Anti-Semitism Seriously

When U.S. policymakers focus on Iran, they tend to look at technical issues—its military capabilities, its economy, its nuclear ambitions. But they seldom pay enough attention to its ideological beliefs.

The Weekend Read
The True American

An excellent book about America, hate, and redemption—at once despairing of and affirming the American dream—is your weekend read.

Aftermath
Did the 2014 EU Elections Mean Anything?

European elections are usually forgettable events, but this year’s has laid bare several contradictions at the heart of the European project.

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The Land of the Purple Finger
Bucking the Odds

As Egypt “counts its votes” and Syria prepares for its own bogus elections in early June, a real and highly consequential democratic process continues into a critical phase in another Arab country where such a thing was for decades even more unlikely: Iraq.

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Aftermath
Europe’s Tea Party Moment

Anti-EU parties staged their strongest showing ever in Europe’s elections last weekend. Is this the beginning of the end for the European project?

Bombshell
Nuclear Know-How

With the next round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program set for June 16, American Interest editor Adam Garfinkle weighed the prospects for success with Gary Samore, a veteran of U.S. counter-proliferation efforts.

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Cultural Globalization
Is Yoga a Religion?

Yoga probably is not a religion—it is too diffuse and under-organized to fit under this concept. But a more important question is, can religious themes be separated from practice? The answer is less clear-cut.

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Ukraine Votes
Bravo, Ukraine, Bravo!

The results of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine show that “Finlandization” is not an option. Ukrainians have decisively chosen to turn toward Europe.

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