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Brent Scowcroft, Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Dies at 95

A key foreign-policy guide to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, Scowcroft helped shape the National Security Council as we now know it.

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Thomas E. Donilon

Iraq’s Indigenous Peoples Can’t Face Another Conflict

Despite the Islamic State’s retreat, Assyrians fear for their security in the Nineveh Plains. They need stronger support from Washington and Baghdad.

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R.S. Zaya

Oslo Is Dead, the Two-State Solution Isn’t

A two-state solution remains the only politically viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and, with the right Israeli and U.S. leaders, it can be achieved outside the Oslo framework.

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Jerome M. Segal

Washington Needs a Better Plan for Competing With China

U.S. China policy is heavy on rhetoric and light on goals. Articulating a clear set of objectives—from trade to defense—will help policymakers focus their efforts.

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Matthew Kroenig

Kate Merkel-Hess

<p> Kate Merkel-Hess is an ACLS/Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of California - Irvine, the editor of "The China Beat" blog/electronic magazine, and a co-editor of China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. </p> <p> Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at University of California - Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published in April. </p>

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Nanjing by the Numbers

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Kate Merkel-Hess, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

February 9, 2010, 10:31 PM

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Nanjing by the Numbers

Brent Scowcroft, Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Dies at 95

Iraq’s Indigenous Peoples Can’t Face Another Conflict

Oslo Is Dead, the Two-State Solution Isn’t

Washington Needs a Better Plan for Competing With China

Normal Is Over for Russia’s Hinterland