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The European Crisis: Origin and Future

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The release of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy has brought into focus a fundamental tension that has been simmering since before President Donald...

The Nature of the Next American Cycle

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The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade....

Rethinking China

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A few weeks ago, I cited the dismissal of nine senior generals from the People’s Liberation Army by Chinese President Xi Jinping as potential...

Russia’s Issues Beyond Ukraine

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Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump met in Washington with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – all former members of...

Russia’s New War of Attrition

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A battle is raging in Pokrovsk, located in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. It is part of Russia's attempt to encircle Ukrainian forces...

The Internet Today

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Editor's Note: In 2017, we published an article titled "The Internet and the Tragedy of the Commons," which argued that anonymity was destroying our...

The 2020s and Its Historic Shift: The United States

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In my book “The Next 100 Years,” published in 2009, I predicted that in the 2020s the United States would experience a massive socio-economic...

Calibrating Capability and Interest in Ukraine

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Last week, in my column in which I answer readers’ questions, I wrote that the United States must calibrate and measure its geopolitical interests...

On the Upcoming Trump-Putin Summit and Tariffs on India

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U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. They had spoken many...

Turkey’s Time to Rise

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“The Next 100 Years,” which was published some 15 years ago, forecast the emergence of three significant powers over the next few decades: Japan,...

The Geopolitics of Drugs

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Last month, President Donald Trump declared – not for the first time – the drug cartels in Latin America to be international terrorists. And...

Putin’s Dilemma

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In analyzing the process by which the Russia-Ukraine war will end, the most critical factor, as I have argued before, is that by not...
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