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Editor’s Note: Critics of Trump's foreign policy, including many of my Brookings colleagues, regularly espouse the virtues of the so-called liberal order and decry Trump's repeated attacks on it. The Uni...
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The Justice Department made history of a dubious sort on Saturday when it released under the Freedom of Information Act a redacted copy of the FISA applications seeking a surveillance warrant against for...
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On Monday, July 23 at 11:00 a.m.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host The Unmaking of Jihadism: The Current Effort to C...
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Editor’s Note: It's always hard to be optimistic about anything involving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute today, and if anything, things are likely to get worse. Palestinian leadership is one particular ...
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On Monday, President Trump flew to Helsinki, Finland to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last Sunday, Carol R. Saivetz laid out the topics that the pair were likely to address. After their clo...
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Trump announced plans to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this fall, according to the New York Times. The announcement was made on Twitter by Sarah Huckabee Sanders and came wh...
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U.S. intelligence leaders showed President Trump evidence that Vladimir Putin ordered an operation to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections two weeks before his inauguration, reports the New York Times.
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Editor’s Note: The U.S.-Russia relationship is at the center of the Trump administration. At home, the investigation over Russian interference in the 2016 election continues to enrage the president, whil...
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On Monday, President Trump nominated Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the D.C. Circuit to succeed Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Senate Democrats and critics of the nomination have alleged that Kavanaugh’s expre...
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Review of Ronan Farrow’s “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence” (W.W. Norton, 2018) and James F. Dobbins’s “Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontline...
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On Monday, July 9 at 10:00 a.m.: Join the Bipartisan Policy Center for Why Inspectors General Matter. The event will address recommendations for...
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Editor’s Note: Russia is the most aggressive actor challenging the United States today, but the nature of that aggression differs from the past threat Moscow posed and, indeed, from the dangers posed by ...
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii continued to make waves this week. On Monday, Salam Al-Marayati kicked things off with a discussion of how anti-Muslim sentiment threatens the future of co...
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A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to stop its blanket detention policy for asylum seekers, according to the Washington Post. The government will now have to release more than 1,000 individuals ...
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Review of Daphne Richemond-Barak’s “Underground Warfare” (Oxford, 2018).
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Editor’s Note: The rapid pace of technological innovation is changing the nature of warfare, and futurists are busy spinning out scenarios of a U.S.-China clash in twenty years involving nano-technology ...
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The Supreme Court took center stage this week after it released a number of highly-anticipated decisions and Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench. On Tuesday, the high court vo...