Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
Dueling perspectives on the rise of protectionism.
Trade and financial flows have fallen well below their peaks, and poorer countries will bear the brunt.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai counters critics who say the United States is fostering unfair competition.
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Twenty years on, the war still shapes policy—mostly for the worse.
Moscow is grasping for meaning in a meaningless invasion.
The peace plan is a big deal—and it’s no accident that China brokered it.
Front-line officers are desperate for a less glamorous weapon: the infantry fighting vehicle.
Why is global outrage about the Uyghur genocide muted? Human rights advocate Nury Turkel has some ideas.
The Wagner Group’s propaganda has a clear target: Paris.
Almost unnoticed, a generation of Russians has come of age during his 23 years in power.
India and Israel have strengthened their defense ties in recent years—but a new book makes the relationship sound more sinister than it is.
Russia’s war can only be understood as a bloody post-imperial conflict.
Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.
Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?
The dirty secret of the Russian military is that long-conquered subjects are the Kremlin’s cannon fodder.
Weijian Shan’s new book is notable mostly for what it leaves out.
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David Petraeus, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lee Hsi-min, and eight other experts on how to avoid a war over Taiwan—or anywhere else.
How India’s prime minister dismantled the world’s largest democratic experiment.
The abrupt end of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and the ongoing proceedings in Colombia show how the process doesn’t always serve the victims.
Open-source investigations were once potent journalistic tools, but in Ukraine, they’re being used on the battlefield.
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