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Online Exclusive • 05/20/2026 • Online Essay

Trump’s Imperial Infantilism and Europe’s Failure of Moral Witness: What Arendt Can Teach us About Political (Im)Maturity

By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan

Online Exclusive • 05/14/2026 • Essay

Leverage through Complicity

The essay explores risks of the U.S. presidential pardon system, analyzing how individuals can be compelled to do bad things through complicity in wrongdoing.

By Drew Thompson

Online Exclusive • 04/27/2026 • Online Essay

Humanitarian Aid for Minerals: Trump’s Transactional Statecraft and the Weaponization of Dependency

Framed as a pragmatic “America First” foreign policy, conditioning aid risks institutionalizing exploitative dynamics and contributing to human suffering under the guise of development cooperation.

By Ben Hazelton

Online Exclusive • 03/28/2018 • Blog

The United Nations, Human Rights and American Disengagement

Recent events at the UN show how China and Russia are reshaping the international order.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/19/2018 • Blog

Uncertainties About America's Global Reliability

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/13/2018 • Blog

Free Trade After the 2016 Elections

Politicians in favor of promoting free trade need a new narrative to persuade the electorate. What might that narrative be?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/7/2018 • Blog

American Engagement: Dialogue with the Newport Circle of Scholars

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 02/23/2018 • Blog

Outsourcing Thinking on Engagement?

The American public is increasingly deferential to the military on U.S. global engagement, shifting the ethical burden of responsibility.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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