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Washington’s Brazil Problem: The New Geopolitics of Self-Defeat
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The United States has spent eighteen months applying economic, judicial, and now electoral pressure on Latin America's largest democracy, and at each step...
A Hybrid Approach for a Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund
While this author has long called for a United States Wealth Fund to be started by excise taxes on mineral wealth extracted from federal...
How China Uses U.S. and Israel Protests to Advance Its Global Strategy
Chinese authorities are monitoring the demonstrations against US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewing them as a reflection of the erosion...
What the U.S.–Syria Business Forum Means for U.S.–Syria Relations
“Economic statecraft is not self-sustaining.” That is the wager embedded in America’s Syria policy, and the first Syrian-American business forum held on July 13,...
A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War
“As to dangers arising from an American president, the best protection is not to elect one.”-General Maxwell D. Taylor (ret.), 14 March 1976.
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China’s New AI Alliance: Why WAICO Could Reshape Global AI Governance
From July 17 to 20, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) was held in Shanghai, China. In this context, China was trying to...
Why China Sees NATO as a Threat to Asia-Pacific Stability
In celebration of the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), established in August 1927, the PLA commemorates its...
Why Didn’t the Iran–Israel War Divide the Middle East?
Throughout the history of international relations, major crises have often produced a predictable outcome: they force states to make choices. When rivalry between two...
Military Chaplains and Strategy in West Africa
The West Africa Religious Affairs Symposium, held in Accra last week, was easy to overlook if one expected a conventional military conference. It was...
Is China Really Filling America’s Vacuum?
Evidence from 2026 shows that China is not simply filling the gap or staying out. Instead, China is acting strategically-getting involved where its own...