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- The Folly of Energy Independence http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1266 3 comments
- A Reply to President Putin by Philip D. Zelikow https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/07/31/a-reply-to-president-putin/ 14 comments geopolitics
- The Danger of Electoral Violence in the United States https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/19/the-danger-of-electoral-violence-in-the-united-states/ 25 comments politics
- The Superpower Remover | COVID-19 could accelerate America’s decline as a superpower. But we are not powerless to avert the worst-case scenario. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/04/02/the-superpower-remover/ 12 comments politics
- Clawing Back Constitutional War Powers | As members of Congress seek to reassert greater sway over military matters, they must also be ready for the heightened obligations that will come with it. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/03/05/clawing-back-constitutional-war-powers/ 4 comments politics
- It’s Not Us—It’s Him -- Our problems with Turkey aren’t due to Trump, or Obama, or any other President. Put the blame where it belongs: with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his choices. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/12/03/its-not-us-its-him/?utm-access=rcw 10 comments worldevents
- The Pashtuns’ Year of Living Dangerously https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/03/08/the-pashtuns-year-of-living-dangerously/ 4 comments geopolitics
- China’s Long Game https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/05/27/chinas-long-game/ 11 comments geopolitics
- Germany’s Russia Lobby https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/05/14/germanys-russia-lobby/ 8 comments europe
- Rotterdam: The City of Europe’s Future https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/04/29/the-city-of-europes-future/ 3 comments europes
- Obsessed with “owning the libs”, the Right has missed how it has opened the door to a muscular, credible populism of the Left https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/07/03/the-rights-straw-left/ 26 comments politics
- Grinda’s War - Who is the Spanish prosecutor fighting the Russian mafia state? https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/06/12/grindas-war/ 8 comments politics
- Multilateralism for a Despotic Age - Democracies need different rules of engagement with authoritarian regimes. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/03/12/multilateralism-despotic-age/ 20 comments geopolitics
- How to Manage Post-Democracy Turkey https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/09/18/manage-post-democracy-turkey/ 3 comments geopolitics
- Courting Corruption: The truth about the legal morass created by the controversial Citizens United ruling, and why it matters. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/08/25/courting-corruption/ 4 comments politics
- America’s Placebo President? http://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/03/06/americas-placebo-president/ 5 comments politics
- Erdogan’s authoritarian surge has now kicked into overdrive with the arrests of opposition members of parliament. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/04/erdogan-ups-the-ante/ 31 comments worldnews
- Did Moscow Botch a Coup in Montenegro? http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/10/30/did-moscow-botch-a-coup-in-montenegro/ 8 comments politics
- Did Moscow botch a coup in Montenegro? http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/10/30/did-moscow-botch-a-coup-in-montenegro/ 92 comments europe
- When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/10/when-and-why-nationalism-beats-globalism/ 3 comments geopolitics
- The Bullshistory of “Sykes-Picot” http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/16/the-bullshistory-of-sykes-picot/ 21 comments geopolitics
- The Return of “In-Between” Europe http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/18/the-return-of-in-between-europe/ 3 comments europes
- Toward a Global Realignment http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignment/ 26 comments geopolitics
- The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People: How to make friends and influence people on the other side of the aisle. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/02/17/the-seven-habits-of-highly-depolarizing-people/ 5 comments moderatepolitics
- The Myth of Russia’s Containment - "Russia did not become the largest country in the world by being the object of constant Western depredations or containment." http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/12/21/the-myth-of-russias-containment/ 164 comments europe
- The Myth of Russia’s Containment http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/12/21/the-myth-of-russias-containment/ 6 comments geopolitics
- Putin, Obama, and the Middle East: President Obama may not have a coherent strategy. But maybe it’s too soon to judge with confidence how the end result of his contradictory, floundering policies might play out, in the Middle East, or in the world at large http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/10/03/putin-obama-and-the-middle-east/ 4 comments geopolitics
- Russia’s Love Affair with Germany: Germans have historically had an affinity for Russia, but the Kremlin has seemingly been doing everything in its power to drive them away http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/08/27/russias-love-affair-with-germany/ 12 comments geopolitics
- Time for Some Straight Talk on NATO -- With a real crisis brewing on Europe’s northeastern flank, leading “from behind” or leading from the “Mitte” just won’t do. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/01/time-for-some-straight-talk-on-nato/ 6 comments geopolitics
- What Comes Next? (After Ukraine) http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/02/09/what-comes-next/ 4 comments geopolitics
- In It To Win It: The West’s inability to comprehend how Vladimir Putin sees the world means it has trouble thinking constructively about how to deal with him. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/01/27/in-it-to-win-it/ 4 comments worldevents
- The Seven Great Powers http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/01/04/the-seven-great-powers/ 40 comments geopolitics
- Putin Targets the Scandinavians -- Russia naval and airspace incursions in the Baltic Sea area are aimed at deterring Sweden and Finland from increasing their cooperation with NATO. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/11/17/putin-targets-the-scandinavians/ 29 comments geopolitics
- In 1997, the EU pledged its support to the “one country, two systems” formula and to Beijing’s promise to bring democratic elections to Hong Kong. Yet the EU has remained silent since the confrontation between Beijing and the pro-democracy activists began to grow hot this summer. http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/10/02/the-eus-deafening-silence-on-hong-kongs-democratic-deficit/ 66 comments europe
- Hungary Cuts Off Gas to Ukraine http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/09/26/hungary-cuts-off-gas-to-ukraine/ 3 comments geopolitics
- Nationwide Manhunt for Radio Host Who Insulted Thai King http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/04/15/nationwide-manhunt-for-radio-host-who-insulted-thai-king/ 3 comments worldnews
- The Much-Too Special Relationship: how the City of London threatens US security and abets corruption http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/03/19/the-much-too-special-relationship/ 3 comments worldevents
- "Just as the United States tightened its relations with China in the early 1970s to gain leverage over Russia, so American interests today require using Russian power to maintain some control over a rapidly rising China." http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=1499 21 comments geopolitics
- What Were They Thinking? The Role Of Economists In The Financial Debacle: "As the dust begins to settle from the current global economic crisis, one of the issues we need to confront is the role of academic economists in promoting ideas that in retrospect were both wrong and dangerous." http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=647 17 comments politics
- "Up and down the frontier of American global power, from the South China Sea to the Middle East, from the Caucasus to the north Central European plain, U.S. allies are increasingly nervous." http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=923 3 comments indepthstories