Washington Is Repeating Mistakes It Made in Iraq; America Risks Losing a Global Swing State; Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk
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How Venezuela Becomes a Quagmire

Washington Is Repeating Mistakes It Made in Iraq

By Meghan L. O’Sullivan

 

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America Must Salvage Its Relationship With India

Or Risk Losing a Global Swing State

By Richard Fontaine and Lisa Curtis

 
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Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk

The Massive Costs of Gutting USAID

By Alice Hill and Lindsey Doyle

 

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Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough?

An Unlikely Partnership Could Allow Tokyo and Seoul to Counter China

By Ayumi Teraoka

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