Essays
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Is a French Intifada Brewing?

France has Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish communities. The outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence since the Second Intifada are only the most visible signs of an unstable and fraught situation.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
America: Powerful but Not Preeminent

Discretion may be the better part of valor for defenders of democracy.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
The US-China Codependency

China and the U.S. each need the other to remain economically vibrant, and both will benefit from a U.S.-led global order.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Japan’s Existential Angst

Japan is worried by America’s “strategic ambiguity” and uncertain about its own future.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
A Second Act for U.S. Foreign Policy

Obama should be thinking of his place in history as he ponders what to do about Ukraine.

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Obama’s Pragmatic Internationalism

The President takes the long view, and his caution in the global arena is no mistake.

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
The Reluctant Strongman

The Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been one long parade of errors.

America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Obama’s “Greta Garbo Moment”

The leader of the world’s only superpower just “wants to be alone.” Part of the symposium: “America Self-Contained?

The Middle East
Can the Egyptian-American Relationship Be “Reinvented”?

A strong U.S.-Egyptian relationship is necessary for the United States to achieve its many objectives in the Middle East. And permanent estrangement, which looks increasingly likely, is not a foregone conclusion.

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Invade A Little or Invade A Lot
Russia’s Next Move in Ukraine

Carefully thinking through Russia’s different tactical options for invading Ukraine would have seemed unnecessarily alarmist as little as a few weeks ago. Today, it seems downright prudent.

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