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For those who are dismayed and disturbed by Israelās disproportionate response to the Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7 last year, Oregonās Senator…
North Koreaās Calculations Two of Americaās most prominent North Korea experts, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, begin their latestĀ analysisĀ with this sentence: āThe…
The Washington Consensus The debt of developing countries is at ācrisisā levels, the World Bank has just said. Supporting that view is…
A Badly Weakened Dictatorship Myanmarās (Burma) military dictatorship, which seized power in 2021, suddenly is vulnerable to attack from the hodgepodge resistance…
Following the Script International conferences almost always fall well short of meeting ambitious reform goals because the large number and variety of…
Israelās attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has become both the reality and the symbol of all that is wrong…
Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear…
Weapons Deals and Heightening Tensions Alarm bells are ringing in Tokyo, Seoul, and Washington over Kim Jong Unās transactions during his 6-day…
Strategic Rethinking Nearly 50 years after the Vietnam War, and more than 25 years since the US and Vietnam established diplomatic relations,…
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