Category: Grand Strategy
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Russia and China Really Are Getting Closer
Jacob Bosen // Russia and China are rediscovering a need to cooperate, using their shared histories and beliefs to develop a powerful Sino-Russian bloc that could secure relative hegemony in Asia
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Nuclear Stability Starts With Us
Carl Parkin // Denuclearization can become, rather than self-destructive, an active project led by a global superpower
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Taiwan Doesn’t Want To Be A Proxy Conflict
Garrett Ehinger // The United States should not try to force Taiwan into making purchases without demonstrated interest
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Serbia Between Washington and Moscow
Julian Fisher // Recent events in Kosovo reveal unresolved tensions and a geopolitical struggle for dominance in the Balkans.
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Overestimating Allies: Kennan on Southeast Asia
Narupat Rattanakit // America should pursue their national interests through engagement with each Southeast Asian state utilizing greater diplomatic, economic, and non-military security related engagements.
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Avoiding America’s Brewing War in the Baltics
Robert Clarke // Sending strong policy signals to the Baltic capitals could help defuse the danger of unintended conflict between the Baltics and Russia that would lead the U.S. into war.
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Dichotomie
Lake Dodson // In such critical times as these, any kind of rift between France and America would be a failing of international diplomacy and statesmanship, in other words, a major faux pas
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A Defense of the One China Policy
Garrett Ehinger // Before America even considers abrogating the One China policy, it should focus on solving persistent underlying questions surrounding Taiwanese security and less risky alternative means of deterring China.
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Liberal Interventionism and the Crisis of International Law
Julian Fisher // When the United States…enforced international law against an aggressive Iraq and brought war criminals to trial in Yugoslavia, all while embarking on its own aggressive wars and committing its own war crimes…left the lasting impression…that the international system is neither value-neutral nor necessarily liberal but merely subservient to hegemonic power.
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Is Israel Still Key to U.S. Grand Strategy?
Dylan Motin // The massive campaign of U.S. aid to Israel has outlived its original purpose and is now impeding Washington’s effort to outcompete great power rivals.