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Summer 2025 |

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Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014.

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Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy

Summer 2025 by Sarah G. Phillips and Daniel J. Tower

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What Does China Want?

Summer 2025 by David Kang, Jackie S. H. Wong and Zenobia T. Chan
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Keeping Pace with the Times: China’s Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning

Summer 2025 by Wu Riqiang
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Access Denied? The Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia

Summer 2025 by Nicholas D Anderson and Daryl Press
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The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia

Summer 2025 by Henrik Stålhane Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø

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The West’s Troubled Origins: Clerics and the Eradication of Europe’s Jews and Muslims

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How Medieval Ethnoreligious Cleansing Shaped Western Europe

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Beyond the "Nuclear Umbrella": Rethinking European Defense After the Russia-Ukraine War

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The Jackpod: The Meddler’s Trap

Feb. 2, 2024
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Why the United States Is Losing the Tech War With China

Jan. 14, 2024
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Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available

Nov. 19, 2023

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