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In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.
From bombed reactors to inflation and blackouts, a cascade of crises is testing the Islamic Republic’s resilience like never before.
From Hitler to Hamas, Western powers have repeatedly dismissed open threats as bluffs — with catastrophic results.
The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.
As Beijing encroaches on the territory of the Himalayan kingdom, its ultimate aim is leverage over India.
By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.
"It’s only natural for us to get America back," quipped Kim Kielsen, former prime minister of Greenland, in 2019.
“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.
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The United States is the biggest risk in 2024. Here are the other 9, explained by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
Still, the author's main argument wasn't totally discredited.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they're an easy target and are not completely controllable.
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
"Strategic ambiguity" has long been the West's strategy on Taiwan.
As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
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“This is much deeper than just ‘let’s figure out how we can get both sides to get along.’”
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.
Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. But making financial decisions — such as those regarding retirement — in a multipolar world without geopolitics is akin to flying blind in a storm.
Diplomacy is war by other means.
Ukraine destroyed a railway to prevent passage from Transnistria into Ukraine.
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.