How the Republican Foreign Policy Elites Misdiagnosed Trumpism
Mainstream foreign policy experts have no fix for blue-collar Americans enraged at the failures of the liberal world order.
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David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
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Kori Schake
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James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
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Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
This is How the Liberal World Order Ends
Not with a bang, but with a pair of defiant anti-establishment presidential candidates.
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The Islamic State of Afghanistan
With the caliphate growing across Central Asia, it's time to make a deal with the Taliban -- the enemy we know.
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The Cold Realism of the Post-Paris War on Terror
The time for supporting democratic regime change across the Muslim world is over. It's accept Assad and his like, or embrace the chaos.
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Why Obama Should Just Let Putin Have the Mess in Syria
One way or another, the war in Syria will remain a hopeless mess -- best we leave it to Moscow.
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Obama’s Mission in Kenya
The president has tough task as he visits East Africa. He can’t revive British colonialism, but he must provide an alternative to Chinese cynicism.
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Why We Failed to Win a Decisive Victory in Afghanistan
Shifting political allegiances, not smashing enemies, should have been the goal. And that holds true for the campaign against the Islamic State as well.
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The Moral Tragedy of Scottish Independence
The injustice of watching from England as the Scots destroy the United Kingdom.
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Give Putin a Way Out
With Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border, the talk of war is getting louder. But it doesn’t have to happen.
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The U.S.-Led International Order Is Dead
Long live a new era of America's halting involvement in a world not of its own making.
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About Emile Simpson
Emile Simpson is the author of War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics and served in the British Army from 2006 to 2012 as an infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
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