The Bomb Is the Best Way to Contain the Threat From North Korea; A Last Chance for Iran; America Needs a Maximum Pressure Strategy in Ukraine
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Why South Korea Should Go Nuclear

The Bomb Is the Best Way to Contain the Threat From the North

 By Robert E. Kelly and Min-hyung Kim

 

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At the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Museum, Tehran, November 2024

A Last Chance for Iran

America Should Give Diplomacy a Final Shot—While Preparing to Use Military Force

By Richard Nephew

 
Ukrainian servicemembers firing a rocket toward Russian troops in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, December 2024

America Needs a Maximum Pressure Strategy in Ukraine

Trump Must Gain More Leverage to Bring Putin to the Negotiating Table

By Alina Polyakova

 
A container ship near New York City, September 2024

How Tariffs Can Help America

Economists Have Drawn the Wrong Lessons From the Failures of the 1930s

By Michael Pettis

 
Former President Jimmy Carter at a meeting of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, June 1995 

What Jimmy Carter Left Behind

The Foreign Policy Legacy of an Underappreciated President

By Tom Donilon

 
Protesting after the death of the reformer Hu Yaobang, Beijing, April 1989

The Man Who Almost Changed China

Hu Yaobang and the Unfinished Business of Reform and Opening

By Chen Jian

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