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Subscribe Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended Donate Now An investment in the maintenance of democracy: please consider making a year-end donation. Wednesday, December 23 Tuesday, December 22 Monday, December 21 Sunday, December 20 Saturday, December 19 Friday, December 18 Thursday, December 17 Wednesday, December 16 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No Why America Needs a Foreign Policy Reset Dimitri Simes, National Interest How We Can Help the Chinese People Joseph Bosco, The Hill Will Pakistan's Military Lose Its Grip on Power? Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs Joe Biden Discovers Russia Leon Aron, The Dispatch Russia, U.S. Interests, and Global Economic Stability J. 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Read More More From Real Clear Foreign Policy Corner The Trouble With ‘Sayonara’ Foreign Policy The Retrenchment Syndrome The Case for Kissinger Europe Distances Itself From the U.S. Middle East France Pulls Out of NATO Mediterranean Mission Read More More From Real Clear Middle East Accepting the Limits of U.S. Foreign Policy An Egyptian-Turkish War in Libya? Libya: Russia’s Next Front Is Turkey Already Done With the Executive Presidency? Why America Needs a Foreign Policy Reset Dimitri Simes, National Interest We must recognize that world affairs are rarely black and white, that alliances should serve as instruments of U.S. policy rather than as... Read More How We Can Help the Chinese People Joseph Bosco, The Hill When Joe Biden takes over from Donald Trump, he will confront a complex and daunting China problem. But Trump’s team also will... Read More Will Pakistan's Military Lose Its Grip on Power? Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs Anger Is Mounting at the Generals Behind the Throne Read More Joe Biden Discovers Russia Leon Aron, The Dispatch He should beware of the mysterious pull to befriend or even change Russia by proffers of goodwill. Read More Russia, U.S. Interests, and Global Economic Stability J. Haberman, Russia Matters Editors' note: With a change of guard in the White House coming in January, the new U.S. president will have a chance to commission a review... Read More No End in Sight to Yemen's Misery Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy Five articles from the past year that explain how the quagmire in Yemen sparked fierce political battles in Washington as millions teeter on... Read More A Diplomatic Agenda for the Syrian Puzzle Charles Thépaut, Washington Institute If Biden wants to create additional leverage before attempting difficult negotiations with Russia, he will need to display strategic... Read More Boris Johnson and the Collapse of Chaos as Leadership Daniel Fortin, Les Echos As the sudden arrival of harsh new lockdown restrictions and the closing of borders in European countries coincides with down-to-the-wire... Read More Tech Giants Give China Vital Edge in Espionage Zach Dorfman, Foreign Policy China's Digital Aid: Risks and Rewards Council on Foreign Relations As part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the biggest infrastructure undertaking in the world, Beijing has... Read More Yet Another Election in Israel Economist Binyamin Netanyahu is facing a serious challenge from the right Read More Netanyahu's Political Survival Plan Ben Caspit, Al Monitor Hard to believe, but it seems to be happening: Israel appears heading for elections in March 2021, its fourth in less than two years.... Read More Syria's Famished Victory Lydia Wilson, Newslines As the Syrian regime revels in its conquests, people under its rule are struggling to put food on the table Read More Russia's Latest Land Grab Ivan Sascha Sheehan, National Review n November, Russia gained a slice of somebody else’s country. It did this not through unidentified troops moving across a border, nor... Read More Belarus, a Cultural Borderland Grigory Ioffe, Jamestown Historically, no religious denomination has categorically or systematically promoted Belarusian nationalism. Rather, for centuries, an... Read More Podcasts How Pandemics End The New Republic On December 11, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer to begin distributing its vaccine for Covid-19. The triumphant moment... Read More Engaging the Evil Empire War on the Rocks In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, sits... Read More Essential Geopolitics: China vs. Australia Stratfor Worldview In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue speaks to Stratfor's Asia Pacific analyst,... Read More Soft Power, Disinformation, and Censorship in China Sarah Cook, Heritage Olivia Enos interviews Sarah Cook on the Chinese Communist Party's use of soft power, disinformation, and censorship in its influence... Read More Research & Analysis Think Tanks as Platforms for Authoritarian Influence NED As globalization deepens integration between democracies and autocracies, the compromising effects of sharp power—which impairs... Read More The Perils of Predicting With Futurethink Brookings Institution A Strategic Response to Disorder Aspen Institute Making U.S. Foreign Policy Work for the Middle Class Carnegie Endowment More From Real Clear Videos Australia-China Feud Escalates Putin, Poisoning, Belarus: What’s Going On? Ramp Up on Russia ...