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Technology, Behavior, and Effectiveness in Naval Warfare: The Battles of Savo Island and Cape Saint George
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In The NewsSuperpower Showdown: Jane Perlez
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In The NewsAmerica’s Endangered AI
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In The NewsStrong or Weak? How Trump Picks His Battles.
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Munich Security Conference, 2026
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Mushrooming: Tackling Growing Nuclear Proliferation Risk
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NATO’s Leader Is Totally Lost
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Face-Off: the U.S. vs China
As the U.S.-China relationship continues to take center stage in global affairs, season 3 of Face-Off: the U.S. vs China-- the award-winning podcast-- returns to unpack the latest developments in the economies, warfare, soft power, alliances, and more between the two global superpowers.
Hosted by Jane Perlez, Belfer Center Fellow and former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief, and Rana Mitter, Professor of Modern China History.
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What Lifting U.S. Sanctions Means for Syria’s Transition
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The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World
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ArticleDeception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense
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AI, Health, and the Future of Scientific Cooperation
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Q&ALaw Professor Jody Freeman Unpacks the EPA's Decision to Rescind the Endangerment Finding
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Event SummaryRevealing Secrets About the Antecedents of the Five Eyes Network
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Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers
Right-wing populist leaders love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life. But their love affair with the military rarely endures, writes Ronald Krebs in the latest issue of International Security.
He argues that the political logic of populism explains this seeming paradox. Romanticizing and mythologizing the military solves a political problem for populists: how to mobilize people power without actually granting power to the people. This piece examines Bolsonaro’s Brazil; Modi’s India; the Law and Justice Party in Poland; Erdoğan’s Turkey; and Trump’s United States.