How America Can Take Advantage of the Status Quo; External Escalation, Internal Consolidation; A Socioeconomic Divide Shapes the Country’s Politics—and Its Aggressive Foreign Policy
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, October 2025

Trump, Xi, and the Case for Strategic Calm

How America Can Take Advantage of the Status Quo

By Ryan Hass

 

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At the funeral of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, Tehran, March 2026 

How Iran Sees the War

External Escalation, Internal Consolidation

By Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

 
A protest against mandatory military service, Bnei Brak, Israel, February 2026

The Two Israels

A Socioeconomic Divide Shapes the Country’s Politics—and Its Aggressive Foreign Policy

By Eran Yashiv

 

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The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., January 2026 

There Is Only One Sphere of Influence

Why America Can Project Power With Little Constraint—and Its Rivals Cannot

By Michael Beckley

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