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Online Exclusive • 12/11/2025 • Blog

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By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 11/17/2025 • Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

By Christopher Kutz

Online Exclusive • 10/23/2025 • Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

By Christopher J Finlay

Online Exclusive • 01/18/2019 • Essay

After Katowice: Three Civil Society Strategies for Ratcheting Up Climate Ambition

The recent climate conference in Katowice, Poland was a milestone for the Paris Agreement, and it points to the role NGOs can play in encouraging ...

By Ewan Kingston

Online Exclusive • 01/18/2019 • Blog

Rischian Transactionalism

Transactionalism in U.S. foreign policy has a new proponent: James E. Risch, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 01/10/2019 • Essay

Japan’s Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission: A Disaster that Could Have Been Avoided

Former IWC chair Cristian Maquieira writes that Japan's decision was a long time coming, but it didn't have to be this way.

By Cristian Maquieira

Online Exclusive • 12/26/2018 • Blog

Ethics and the Syria Withdrawal

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 12/8/2018 • Blog

Warren and Haley: Post-Trump Foreign Policies?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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