A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
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A nation must think before it acts.
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Braving the Cold: Climate, Competition, and Collaboration in the Arctic Sea Lanes
With sea lanes opening in the Arctic, a new race for resources has created opportunities for both cooperation and competition ...
Read more »Exploring China’s Autonomous Regions
China has a number of autonomous regions within its boundaries that have more local government rule and legislative rights than ...
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Thinking about Iran
As tensions between the US and Iran ratchet up, and the 2015 nuclear deal increasingly looks like a dead letter, ...
Read more »From Counterterrorism to Conventional Threats: The Future of War
For the inaugural session of our new Main Line Briefings, hosted and cosponsored by The Haverford School, we are pleased ...
Read more »Baltic Independence at 100
In this lecture, Stephen Kotkin will explore the geopolitical forces that buffeted the Baltic states during the 20th century ...
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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War
Drawing on recently declassified documents, John Lehman tells the untold story of the Cold War at sea — and why ...
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Is Israel Losing Its Soul?
On July 19, Israel’s parliament passed a controversial nation-state law. Designed by its proponents to promote Israel as the nation-state of ...
Read more »Authoritarianism in Europe in the 20th Century – and the 21st
Drawing on her book in progress, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day (Oxford ...
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Ending the Great War
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Why did Germany lose the war? ...
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Syria between Russia and the US: Is There a Path to Peace?
The war in Syria is reaching a decisive point. As the campaign against ISIL winds down, the battle for influence ...
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