The Coming Fracture in the Democratic Order
Oxford’s Giovanni Capoccia on why the democratic recession defies single-cause explanations.
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The West Is Winning and Doesn’t Know It
On paper it crushes the Eurasian bloc. The catch is whether it can get its act together.
A Bomb reached a NATO Hub. Only a dud stopped It.
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The End of the American Umbrella
In Mecca, three of Washington’s allies built the guarantee it no longer provides.
The Agency Washington Forgets
A conversation with Robert Bowker on five decades of western misreadings in the Arab world.
The Ghost of Saigon in the Strait of Hormuz
How the short-war fallacy turned the Iran conflict into another American “forever war,” and why this time is different
Strategic Atlas | Turkey
A member of NATO by treaty, a free agent by conduct. Turkey is the point at which the word “ally” ceases to signify alignment.
A Defect of Form
Political scientists call it executive aggrandizement. Three protests on three continents put it more simply: show us how you decided.
The Atlantic Rupture Will Not End With Trump
Special edition, part two. Carney’s Canada, the Greenland crisis, and the reading no one wants to make: the subordination was written into the order, not the man
Two Symphonies, One World
How Beijing institutionalized its alternative to the American technological order, and why most of the planet is already choosing its conductor.