Regime survival is what drives North Korea’s seemingly irrational behavior – and the rest of the world would do well to take notice.
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Amid the ongoing debate over U.S. strategy in the Middle East, Tyler Bowen responds to Chris Newton’s criticism of millennial foreign policy.
Nuclear weapons in and of themselves do not automatically beget instability.
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Shinzo Abe’s insistence on rearmament does more harm than good to Japanese security.
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Recent negotiations between the government and FARC rebels will succeed only if Bogotá addresses the civil war’s underlying issues.
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The failures of the Bush Doctrine should have shown that repressive peace is better than instability.
For Putin, fighting ISIS is just a pretext for his larger strategic machinations.
Continue reading Putin’s Power Play: The Real Reason Behind Russian Intervention in Syria
Millennials may be a greater danger to American foreign policy than any number of “little green men.”
Continue reading Millennials at the Gate: The Wary Inheritors of American Foreign Policy
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