9/11 20th Anniversary Series

September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 3000 people and injuring hundreds. Those attacks —…

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The Arctic’s Securitization

Whether you read US Army and Coastal Guard Strategies from other Arctic states or the front page of the New York Times, the Arctic is becoming nearly synonymous with fears about Russia and…

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“Do as I Do” Diplomacy

“Do as I say, not as I do.” With the decline of US global hegemony, this is no longer a viable approach to American foreign policy. The gap between what it claims to espouse — freedom,…

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The Think Tank’s Founding Myth

This year, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the oldest and most established foreign policy think tanks in United States history, turned 100. To commemorate the occasion, the…

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The Limits Of A Friendship

Last month, during the height of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made what his government and supporters have described as a…

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