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China Also Rises

Piers Brendon | Oct 20, 2010
Will China seek revenge for its century of humiliation at the hands of the West?

The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan

Ahmed Rashid | Aug 24, 2010
Pakistan's military-intelligence complex is too preoccupied with countering India to mount a serious campaign against radicals who threaten the nation's survival. The country is being destroyed from within.

St. Peter and the Minarets

Harvey Cox | Aug 24, 2010
The Catholic Church is under assault. A secularizing West, the encroachment of Islam into Europe, and the sexual-abuse scandal all threaten the Vatican's ability to influence the masses. The Church's response will be felt worldwide.

Latter-Day Sultans

Daniel Byman | Jun 28, 2010
Armed with pitch-perfect talking points for the Facebook generation, a clique of fortunate sons in the Middle East is set to take over their fathers' sclerotic dictatorships. But this is not regime change. Monarchy is back.

American Jihad

Bruce Hoffman | Apr 20, 2010
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

War From Cyberspace

Richard Clarke | Dec 22, 2009
As Obama appoints Howard A. Schmidt to a new cybersecurity post, former cyberczar Richard Clarke shows America is the most vulnerable country in the world.
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Commentary

Moldova's Democratic Moment

Ilan Greenberg | Dec 07, 2012
Most former Soviet states are autocratic, but freedom is in the air in the land on the Dniester.

Egypt's Demographic and Environmental Time Bombs

Geoffrey Kemp | Jul 06, 2012
It doesn’t really matter what ideology Egypt’s leaders claim to espouse. Addressing the fragile economy must be their priority.

Opportunity amid the Crisis with Pakistan

Zalmay Khalilzad | Dec 09, 2011
This is not a time for Washington to lose its nerve. The current debacle can be transformed into a better future for U.S.-Pakistani relations.
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Blogs

A Worried Washington Confronts Turkey

Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 15, 2010
Formerly staunch allies, Turkey and the United States are becoming estranged.

The China Syndrome

Jacob Heilbrunn | Oct 19, 2010
After putting curbs on its rare earth minerals, Beijing has raised doubts about its self-proclaimed peaceful intentions: Is China the next Wilhelmine Germany?

Crunch Time, Delayed but not Avoided

Paul R. Pillar | Oct 05, 2010
Bosnia and Sudan await the day of reckoning.
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Books & Reviews

Qutb and the Jews

Benny Morris | Oct 20, 2010
The conventional wisdom says Sayyid Qutb is the forefather of modern-day Islamic fundamentalism. What is less known is how the thinker's intense anti-Semitism and contempt for female sexuality contributed to this vulgar worldview.

America Under the Caesars

Michael Lind | Jun 28, 2010
Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Missiles Over Tskhinvali

Thomas de Waal | Apr 20, 2010
Last summer, Russia and Georgia came to blows. Tbilisi’s pro-American president believed NATO would protect him in a fight with the big, bad bear.
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