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Arm Wrestling

Richard Weitz | Feb 29, 2008
As Russia and the United States break the armistice, will China play referee?

Three Years and You're Out

Steven Metz | Jan 02, 2008
If you can't beat 'em, keep trying to beat 'em? The United States needs a new counterinsurgency strategy—and soon.

Brussels Unbound

Jeffrey L. Cimbalo | Jun 01, 2006
The EU has "unilateralist" ambitions.

From Awakening to War

Robert F. Ellsworth | Jun 01, 2006
Without quick mediation, the politicization of religion could lead to conflict.

A Strategic Defense Initiative

Carnes Lord | Jun 01, 2004
This is not your father's "Star Wars." Missile Defense is real, it's coming, and it will be a indispensible instrument of American power.

Continental Divides

Josef Joffe | Mar 01, 2003
It took awhile--more than a dozen years, in point of fact--but the natural tendency in international politics for states to balance against the power of a hegemon has emerged. In western Europe, of all places.
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Commentary

The Defense Exports

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Oct 10, 2010
A new approach bridges the debate over whether America should prepare for counterinsurgencies versus large-scale armed conflicts.

Yemen: Ten Years After the USS Cole Bombing

Christopher Boucek | Oct 10, 2010
Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen is now more dangerous than the original.

Don't Rush START

Dimitri K. Simes
Dov S. Zakheim
| Jul 28, 2010
The dialogue between the administration and the Senate on America’s nuclear force is too important to be hurried along.
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Books & Reviews

A God For All Seasons

Alan Wolfe | Aug 25, 2009
Scholars of international relations have only recently begun to appreciate the power of religion. Their next step is to get religion right. No longer mysterious and magical, modernity has demystified the Higher Power.

Raising Jihad

Andrew J. Bacevich | Mar 02, 2009
Instead of turning back Islamism, military interventions lead large swaths of local populations to pick up arms in defense of their homelands

Strategic Horizons

J. Peter Pham | Mar 01, 2006
Despite predictions to the contrary, America's superpower status remains uncontested.
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