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Making Sense of North Korea’s Missile Test (Frank Aum, USIP)

North Korea announced on September 13 that it had tested long-range cruise missiles over the weekend. It described the missiles as a “strategic weapon of great...

Judy Asks: Will the Afghanistan Debacle Change Your Country’s Foreign and Security Policy? (Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe)

The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has left European capitals skeptical about such missions and critical of American leadership. The debacle should lead to...

The Descent Continues (Bonnie S. Glaser, GMF)

The downward slide in US-China relations continued as the two countries wrangled over Hong Kong, COVID-19, Taiwan, the South China Sea, Xinjiang, and cyberattacks....

Merkel and the UK: a shared vision but lack of understanding (Anand Menon, Clingendael)

Chancellor Angela Merkel will leave active politics after the German federal elections on 26 September 2021. As Merkel’s departure after sixteen years will resonate...

Hoover Fellows Reflect on 20th Anniversary of the Terror Attacks of September 11 (Hoover Institution)

A cohort of Hoover fellows, all of whom served in prominent leadership and military positions in the administration of George W. Bush, reflected on their...

Moscow Promotes Naval Cooperation Among Caspian States to Exclude Others (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

When the five Caspian littoral states signed a maritime delimitation pact in August 2018, they additionally agreed not to allow any outside power to...

Kyiv Airing Disappointment With Western Policies (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reverting to his earlier, forlorn hopes of improving relation with Russia through a personal meeting with President Vladimir Putin....

Zapad 2021 Ends Peacefully but East-West Tensions Still Simmer (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

The massive, Russo-Belarusian Zapad 2021 operational-strategic war games have ended. The scenario of this year’s iteration of Zapad (September 10–16) envisaged an attack on...

A Vision for Infrastructure: What the U.S. Can Learn From China (Wilson Center)

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Sadek Wahba, a Senior Fellow with NYU's Development Research Institute and Chairman and Managing Partner of I Squared Capital, joins us...

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