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Online Exclusive 06/27/2025 Online Essay

The Cosmic Precipice: Why Weaponizing Space Hurts Us All

Online Exclusive 06/11/2025 Online Essay

The Impact of Pope Francis: The Pope as a Moral Leader on the Global Stage

The late Pope Francis was widely seen as a significant and influential figure during his time in office.

Online Exclusive 03/17/2025 Online Essay

Diplomacy as Stagecraft: Ambush, Performance, and the Ethics of the Trump–Zelenskyy Encounter

This essay examines five core breaches of diplomatic norms during the Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting.

Online Exclusive 10/30/2019 Blog

Crafting Narratives and the 2020 Elections

The Project on U.S. Global Engagement has released its report, The Search for a New Narrative: Recasting American Involvement in the International System. 

Online Exclusive 10/17/2019 Blog

A Russian Take on the Kurds and U.S. Foreign Policy

The Russian defense news site Voennoye Obozrenie has a very interesting and caustic take on the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria.

Online Exclusive 09/20/2019 Blog

Need for a New Consensus

Josh Rogin follows up on the move to institutionalize transactionalism as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign aid.

Online Exclusive 09/18/2019 Blog

Candidates, Calculus and the Iran Crisis

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking with the members of the Greater Des Moines Committee on Foreign Relations this past Tuesday around ...

Online Exclusive 09/12/2019 Blog

The Narrative IS Changing ...

One of the criticisms that the U.S. Global Engagement project has received over the past year is the assessment that we are assigning too ...