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Transition 2021: What Foreign Policy Challenges Await President-Elect Biden?In this special Transition 2021 series of The President’s Inbox, James M. Lindsay sits down each week with experts to discuss the challenges facing the incoming Biden administration. This week, CFR President Richard Haass assesses the world that President-Elect Biden will inherit. Haass’s most recent book is The World: A Brief Introduction.
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Middle Eastern Leaders Are Getting While the Getting’s GoodSensing Trump is on the way out, Israel, the UAE, and Turkey are trying to squeeze as much out of the United States as they can now.
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Shifting Power in Asia, With Hervé LemahieuHervé Lemahieu, director of the Asian Power and Diplomacy Program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how political and economic influence is shifting among states in Asia. Lemahieu leads the team responsible for the Institute’s annual Asia Power Index, a data-driven assessment that maps the changing distribution of power in Asia.
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Why the Middle East’s Strongmen Are Rooting for TrumpOn substance and style, authoritarians see an ally in the White House—and hope to keep him there.
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Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: Election 2020 Is Almost Over, MaybeEach Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: where things stand four days before Election Day.
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IsolationismIn his new book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World, CFR Senior Fellow Charles A. Kupchan explores the nation's past to uncover the ideological and political roots of U.S. grand strategy, understand the recent return of isolationist sentiment, and examine how the nation can bring its foreign commitments back into line with its means and purposes.
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Trump’s Middle East Legacy Is FailureThe president has had a handful of successes—but never anything approaching a strategy.
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The History of U.S. Isolationism, With Charles A. KupchanCharles A. Kupchan, CFR senior fellow and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the long history of American efforts to avoid foreign entanglements. Kupchan’s newest book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World, hit bookstore shelves earlier this month.
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Season Three TrailerWhat happens when the world runs out of fish? Does TikTok actually present a national security risk? Will Africa's population boom change the world as we know it? In season three, Why It Matters explores a new series of challenges that are gathering on the horizon.
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America’s Iraqi Embassy Is a Monstrosity Out of TimeThe United States is threatening to close its outpost in Baghdad. It should have done so yesterday.
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Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: VP Candidates Discuss Foreign PolicyEach Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: Kamala Harris and Mike Pence discussed U.S. policy toward China and U.S. global leadership at Wednesday night's vice-presidential debate.
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Losing the Long GameAn insider’s perspective on why U.S. policymakers repeatedly underestimate the costs and consequences of intervention to both the United States and the people of the Middle East.
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Learning from Rabin25 years after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Israelis and Palestinians alike have much to learn from him
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The Future of the U.S. DollarPanelists discuss the post-COVID-19 role of the U.S. dollar, options for alternative currencies, and the impact of U.S. economic and foreign policy on both.
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Losing the Long Game
The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—and why it always seems to go wrong.
