How America and China Can Avoid the Blunders That Led to World War I; A Pliant Autocracy in Iran Won’t Solve America’s Problems in the Region; Moscow’s Missteps Offer a Warning—and an Opening—for Washington
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, October 2025  

Trump, Xi, and the Specter of 1914

How America and China Can Avoid the Blunders That Led to World War I

By Odd Arne Westad

 

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A banner depicting the former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran, March 2026 

The Myth of Authoritarian Stability in the Middle East

A Pliant Autocracy in Iran Won’t Solve America’s Problems in the Region

By Fawaz A. Gerges

 
The foreign ministers of Niger, Mali, Russia, and Burkina Faso meeting in Moscow, April 2025

Why Russia Is Losing the Sahel

Moscow’s Missteps Offer a Warning—and an Opening—for Washington

By Frederic Wehrey and Andrew S. Weiss

 
A tanker sits near Muscat, Oman, March 2026

The Hormuz Minefield

In the Strait, Iran Holds the Advantage—and America Has No Good Options

By Caitlin Talmadge

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