Snakes in the Backyard
Pakistan is failing to control the terrorist groups that are headquartered within its borders and pose a serious threat to both India and the West.
Aneela Mirchandani
· 6 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 213 posts
Unholy Alliance
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
Michael M. Rosen
· 9 min read
Know Thine Enemy
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
David C. Geary
· 14 min read
The Rare Earth Wars
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Israel’s Perfect Failure
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Uri Bar-Joseph
· 19 min read
Thai Colonialism in the Malay World
A spate of deadly shootings in Thailand is just the latest episode in a centuries-long struggle between Thais and Malays.
Imran Said
· 15 min read
Victims of Realism
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
The Strange Western Surrender
When dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, why does the West find it so difficult to learn the exhausting lessons of bitter experience?
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
Border Wars and the Return of Fear
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
The MAGA War on Ukraine
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
Cathy Young
· 13 min read
The World Trump Is Building
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Ronald Radosh
· 15 min read
The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Adam Garfinkle
· 20 min read
A Violent History Obscured
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Brad Strotten
· 8 min read