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The Japanese and United States flags fly side by side over a military base

What’s Next for the U.S.-Japan Partnership?

Miki Hayashi

Blog / January 22, 2026

A group of people holding Taiwanese national flags

Venezuela Doesn’t Make a Chinese Intervention in Taiwan More Likely—Here’s Why

James Lee

Blog / January 08, 2026

The South Korean flag, flying in the early light over the Cheonggye Stream.

Rethinking South Korea’s Failed Martial Law Declaration

Stephan Haggard

Blog / December 10, 2025

Filipino Riot Police in Protective Gear

Changing How Police View the Public: Lessons from the Philippines

Dotan Haim, Matthew Nanes, and Nico Ravanilla

Blog / December 05, 2025

A nuclear power plant in Germany

Regaining U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership

Dominic Brennan

Blog / December 05, 2025

A Chinese factor works on a technology assembly line

Beijing Calls for “Extraordinary Measures” to Boost Tech Self-Sufficiency

Jimmy Goodrich

Blog / November 20, 2025

Around the venue at COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon.

Overcoming Obstruction and Reimagining the Planetary Climate System at COP30

Benjamin Weinger

Blog / November 12, 2025

An array of book covers, including "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa", "Confessions of a Fallen Standard -Bearer" by Andreï Makine, and "Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics" by Stephen Greenblatt

Novels on Authoritarian Rule II

Stephan Haggard

Blog / November 12, 2025

underwater photo

Oceans of Ambition: The Rise of China’s Blue Science

Jimmy Goodrich

Blog / November 06, 2025

A photo of several nuclear warheads against a gray sky

Five Questions on What History Can Teach Us About Today’s Nuclear World

Sarah Bidgood

Blog / November 05, 2025

Chinese president Xi Jinping at a meeting of CCP leadership

Continuity and a Military Purge at China’s Fourth Communist Party Plenum

Tai Ming Cheung

Blog / October 31, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pictured together in India in 2020

Five Questions on Indian Foreign Policy with Achyuta Adhvaryu

Achyuta Adhvaryu

Blog / October 29, 2025

Airport passengers walk through a terminal with signs labeled "Immigration"

Overseas Voting Isn’t the Only Way Migration Affects Democracy

Margaret Peters

Blog / October 28, 2025

Two young voters look at their cell phones while being asked to text their Congressional representatives during the Rally for Medical Research in Washington, D.C.

Can Digital Tech Actually Help Save Democracy?

Kevin Esterling

Blog / October 15, 2025

A Chinese container ship unloading stacks of shipping containers in port

Chinese Overcapacity Looms Over the APEC Summit

Beijie Tang

Blog / October 09, 2025

United Nations General Assembly hall in the UN Headquarters, New York City, February 2024

Two Ways Trump May Attack the UN

Bridget Coggins, Jungjae Hong, and Julia Morse

Blog / October 06, 2025

Young voters gather holding signs that read "A Future to Believe In" at a Bernie Sanders Rally in Stockton, CA, 2016.

Can Progressives Learn from Constructivist Theories of International Relations?

David Lake

Blog / October 03, 2025

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte salutes alongside soldiers upon arriving at a military base.

The Philippines Offers a Warning About Tough-on-Crime Policies

Enrico La Viña

Blog / September 29, 2025