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Inexorable Changes in U.S. Foreign Policy?

August 14, 2018 E-Notes Nikolas K. Gvosdev

The Big Squeeze: Beijing’s Anaconda Strategy to Force Taiwan to Surrender

August 13, 2018 E-Notes June Teufel Dreyer

Saudi Arabia’s New Realism in Iraq

August 9, 2018 E-Notes Rasha Al Aqeedi

Reversing Pension Policy in Russia…Again

August 7, 2018 E-Notes Sarah Wilson Sokhey

The FISA Court’s Essential Purpose

August 6, 2018 E-Notes George W. Croner

The Brewing Battle over U.S. Troop Presence in Syria

August 2, 2018 E-Notes Christopher J. Bolan

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Geopoliticus 
August 13, 2018

Approaching a “New Normal”: What the Drone Attack in Venezuela Portends

By: Colin P. Clarke

When two drones, each equipped with a kilogram of powerful plastic explosives, were used on August 4 to attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, it may have ushered in a foreboding new era—terrorism by unmanned aircraft. ...

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Geopoliticus 
August 10, 2018

U.S.-Russia Arms Control Measures After Helsinki

By: James Cameron

After weeks of silence surrounding the substance of President Donald Trump’s July 16 discussions with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, some details are beginning to emerge. These fragments do not provide a comprehensive picture of the talks, but they...

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E-Notes 
July 27, 2018

When Europe and Japan Move Ahead without the U.S.

By: Shihoko Goto

Speculation about the outbreak of trade wars is high, as the Trump administration seemingly has no plans to deescalate threats ...

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Baltic Bulletin 
July 27, 2018

The Forest not the Trees: Hidden Successes of Latvian Integration

By: Indra Ekmanis

Earlier this year, Franco-German channel TV Arte released a documentary-style film, “Culture War in Latvia,” which ominously describes an extreme rift between Russian speakers and ethnic Latvians in the Baltic country. Following what has become a standard Russia-backed narrative,...

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Scholar Spotlight

Ronen Hoffman

Ronen Hoffman, a 2018-2019 Robert A. Fox Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East, is an academician and former member of Knesset 2013-2015. He served as a member of Israel’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee as well as the chairman of the sub-committee on Foreign Affairs and Public Diplomacy.

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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea

By: Hon. John F. Lehman, Jr.

When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The...

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