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@ForeignAffairs
"In a 2019 essay @sbg1 discussed Vladimir Putins rise to powerand examined the Wests long history of misreading his hold on Russia:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T11:54Z 930.4K followers, 4344 engagements
"From Beijings perspective a U.S.-Chinese code of conduct for military encounters gives the United States a get-out-of-jail-free card allowing it to continue its freedom of navigation operations in the Indo-Pacific writes Kurt Campbell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T19:14Z 930.5K followers, 6980 engagements
"There is a flaw in the Trump plans structure: it lacks a legitimate Palestinian partner writes @ShiraEfron. Equally unclear is the question of security"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T18:14Z 930.5K followers, 4670 engagements
"What Australian security elites want is the old American ally the one to which they so often appealed as the guarantor of the rules-based order writes James Curran"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-17T03:20Z 930.5K followers, 4594 engagements
"Read @jeffreyprescott and @JulianGewirtz on how China could benefit from the Trump administrations rapid willing abdication of Washingtons role in the international system:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T21:52Z 930.5K followers, 5436 engagements
"Read @AndreiSoldatov and @irinaborogan on the threats posed by the Kremlins sabotage operations abroadand why Western leaders have failed to contain Moscows increasingly lethal hybrid warfare strategy:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T05:31Z 930.5K followers, 5158 engagements
".@danwwang and Arthur Kroeber explain how China became a technological powerhouseand argue that Washington should focus less on slowing Beijings momentum and more on strengthening its own capacity"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T06:42Z 930.5K followers, 5233 engagements
"Read @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil on how Israels aggression is reshaping the Middle Eastand how the United States should respond:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T05:10Z 930.5K followers, 5819 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes @BennSteil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T04:25Z 930.5K followers, 7832 engagements
"If Hamas refuses to disarm or continues attacks on Israeli soldiers or civilians Netanyahu will not hesitate to start the war again says @PhilGordonDC who served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T13:19Z 930.4K followers, 8293 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes @BennSteil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T07:24Z 930.5K followers, 32.4K engagements
"Ukraines guarantors must signal to Moscow that renewed aggression will be met not just with Ukrainian resistance but with a massive intensification of external support write @scharap and @JyShapiro"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T00:09Z 930.4K followers, 7112 engagements
"In the Middle East regional elites are already hedging by cultivating China Europe Russia and other powers write @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil. This trend will only accelerate as long as the United States blithely backs Israel"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-05T00:20Z 930.4K followers, 35.3K engagements
"Chinas annexation of Taiwan would send a dangerous signal that small democracies cannot survive in the shadow of strong autocracies writes @FEIFAN_LIN the deputy secretary-general of Taiwans National Security Council"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T13:43Z 930.5K followers, 7760 engagements
"If the United States channels its renewed assertiveness and if local actors can align their power with purpose the Middle East may finally move from perpetual crisis management into a sustainable order write @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T14:56Z 930.5K followers, 4395 engagements
"Read @sbg1s 2019 essay on the Wests long history of misreading Russiaand the perpetual uncertainty that has marked Putins rule:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T14:48Z 930.4K followers, 5320 engagements
"The key to undermining Hamass ability to regroup is to quickly put other security and governance structures in place to replace those run by Hamas argues @Levitt_Matt"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T14:46Z 930.5K followers, 3977 engagements
"Trump does not want to be credible so much as he wants to gain the psychological upper hand to score quick victories writes @YarhiMilo. If that requires disregarding long-standing American commitments so be it"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T07:10Z 930.5K followers, 16.9K engagements
"For the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas to succeed it will require delicate diplomatic choreography and sustained pressure on every stakeholder argues @ShiraEfron"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T01:41Z 930.5K followers, 6204 engagements
"In the weeks and months to come Hamas is likely to rearm its cadres with weapons smuggled by Iran or manufactured at home and use humanitarian aid to refill its empty coffers writes @Levitt_Matt"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T21:42Z 930.5K followers, 5311 engagements
"To keep U.S. forces stocked with ammunition fuel and food in the opening phase of a conflict with Chinaeven if Beijing cuts off supply lines across the PacificWashington must invest in expendable and autonomous logistics systems write Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T18:19Z 930.4K followers, 7139 engagements
"Chinas goal is not to replace the United States as the dominant global power argue @daveckang @SiuHeiWong2 and @ZenobiaChan. Instead Beijing is more focused on preserving the status quo and maintaining its internal stability"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-01T10:20Z 930.5K followers, 15.5K engagements
"A self-sufficient semiconductor industry may be out of Europes reach but a more vibrant one is not write @crmiller1 and John Allen"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T14:29Z 930.5K followers, 3615 engagements
"Like the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War China has vulnerabilities that can be exploited writes @SethGJones. It is time for the United States to develop in earnest a new offset strategy"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T01:39Z 930.5K followers, 13.4K engagements
"If the United States fails to honor its promised transfer of submarines to Australia Canberras faith in Washingtons reliability as an ally already rocked by Trump would be shaken even more writes James Curran"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T17:12Z 930.4K followers, 7508 engagements
"Stabilizing the Middle East will require a new regional coalitionone with dedicated American backing argue @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T20:31Z 930.5K followers, 5596 engagements
"Read @sbg1s 2019 essay on how the West has underestimated Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout his rule:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T19:23Z 930.5K followers, 11K engagements
"Given the contentious domestic dynamics around U.S.-Israeli relations it will take political courage for any U.S. administration to pressure Israel to curb its expanding militarism write @JoostHiltermann and @NatashaHallDCT"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T20:28Z 930.5K followers, 7067 engagements
"A phased approach addressing the challenges of both immediate de-escalation and long-term transitional management has for decades been the most viable strategy to ending conflicts in the Middle East writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T23:06Z 930.5K followers, 4578 engagements
"If the United States continues to ignore Myanmar it will risk further empowering the countrys military junta and solidifying Chinas powerful hold over the region warn Dan Swift and Sean Turnell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-08T10:42Z 930.5K followers, 4794 engagements
"Washington has long assumed but left unsaid that Australia would join the United States in a potential war with China over Taiwan writes James Curran. But Canberra has a strong interest in avoiding war"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T21:30Z 930.5K followers, 8393 engagements
"As more companies adopt AI more voters may embrace nativist policies write @BeaMagistro @SBorwein @rmichaelalvarez @bartbonikowski and @PeejLoewen. It is easier after all to be angry at foreign workers than it is to be angry at technological progress"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T00:07Z 930.5K followers, 6273 engagements
"Sheer survivalof his regime and of himselfis often the aim that best explains many of Putins political decisions at home and abroad wrote @sbg1 in a 2019 essay"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T12:44Z 930.4K followers, 9603 engagements
"After the war in Ukraine Russia will be as ready for the new way of war as any other state writes @MassDara. To avoid falling behind Washington and European capitals must study Russias studyingand then start making their own changes"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T02:53Z 930.5K followers, 6375 engagements
"Israels strikes on Irans energy facilities may be designed to goad Iran into attacking Gulf energy stations or closing the Strait of Hormuz. Such moves would draw Arab states into the conflict and force them to side openly with Israelwhich is exactly what Israel is seeking"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-06-22T14:33Z 930.4K followers, 21.5K engagements
"The United States is approaching the point at which the national debt could undermine not only the countrys economic stability but also the things that have sustained its global power for so many decades warns @krogoff"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-05T23:32Z 930.4K followers, 6263 engagements
".@NarangVipin and @pranayrvaddi explain Irans failure to make a nuclear weaponand consider what what would-be proliferator states have learned from the 12-day war:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-09T07:59Z 930.4K followers, 3836 engagements
"The Trump administration wasted no time stamping the MAGA brand on the U.S. armed forces. Read @MaxBoot on how Trump and Hegseth are rolling back military professionalism and politicizing the armed forces:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T11:29Z 930.5K followers, 4458 engagements
"Virtually every piece of research suggests that restricting immigration and trade will not stop companies from adopting AI. In fact it may hasten layoffs. What would an effective strategy for addressing large-scale AI disruption look like"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T14:41Z 930.5K followers, 4839 engagements
"Put simply Hamas may play along with the first phase of the cease-fire. But the group is not done fighting. Read @Levitt_Matt on how Hamas is likely to navigate the weeks and months ahead:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T00:29Z 930.5K followers, 5204 engagements
"Policymakers should start rolling out the right responses now before AI layoffs ramp up and while the most effective solutions still command widespread support write @BeaMagistro @SBorwein @rmichaelalvarez @bartbonikowski and @PeejLoewen"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T16:51Z 930.5K followers, 8177 engagements
"Along with targeted diplomatic efforts sanctions can raise the costs of the juntas overreliance on Beijing and encourage its leaders to consider reforms that are more in line with U.S. interests write Dan Swift and Sean Turnell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-07T02:06Z 930.4K followers, 5805 engagements
"Read @scharap and @JyShapiro on how American and European leaders can craft security guarantees for Ukraine that both Kyiv and Moscow will find credible:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T15:48Z 930.5K followers, 9635 engagements
"To help stabilize the Middle East the United States should help facilitate Israels integration with its Arab neighbors argue @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T23:43Z 930.5K followers, 4589 engagements
"To prevent a renewed war in Gaza the United States must keep up its pressure on Israeland the Arab states will need to maintain their pressure on Hamas argues former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T15:50Z 930.4K followers, 5016 engagements
"Taiwan is committed to achieving peace through strength by going beyond military readiness to strengthen whole-of-society resilience writes @FEIFAN_LIN. There should be no doubt about Taiwans determination to defend its future and its freedom"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T20:42Z 930.5K followers, 8272 engagements
"The United States didnt beat Japan by building tariff walls or propping up national champions writes @carlbfrey. U.S. leadership rested on open competition and the flexibility to rewire supply chains globally as technology shiftedin a word dynamism"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-04T10:11Z 930.5K followers, 6716 engagements
"The United States should have done more sooner to try to end the war. In a new Q&A @PhilGordonDCwho served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harrisweighs in on Trumps cease-fire deal:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T13:04Z 930.4K followers, 5658 engagements
"What would an effective strategy for addressing large-scale AI disruption look like"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T12:34Z 930.5K followers, 5278 engagements
"To help sustain the Gaza deal in the weeks ahead Washington must show a clear commitment to following up providing incentives for compliance and imposing sanctions for violations writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T21:21Z 930.5K followers, 6481 engagements
"Temporary logistics might seem wasteful but the alternativeattempting to maintain peacetime standards of logistical efficiency in the opening phase of a conflictrisks the type of supply failures that have decided countless wars argue Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T23:12Z 930.5K followers, 5863 engagements
"The deal is a long way from peace in the Middle East. I would call it more of a respite from the hell of the past two years and an opportunity to move forward. Read @PhilGordonDCs Q&A with Editor @dankurtzphelan:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T09:01Z 930.5K followers, 4153 engagements
"Hamas did not carry out the October X attacks in order to wind up governing Gaza but with the goal of being able to operate more like Hezbollah does in Lebanon argues @Levitt_Matt"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-17T00:21Z 930.5K followers, 4401 engagements
"To strengthen U.S. deterrence in the Indo-Pacific Washington should invest in expendable and autonomous logistics systems argue Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco. Investing in deliberately temporary systems is essential not wasteful"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-10T20:08Z 930.5K followers, 6006 engagements
"Even if a military intervention in Venezuela began well U.S. forces would likely find themselves bogged down in the messy work of keeping the peace and rebuilding institutions for years to come wrote Frank Mora in a 2019 essay"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T18:06Z 930.5K followers, 5775 engagements
"The United States is approaching the point at which the national debt could undermine not only the countrys economic stability but also the things that have sustained its global power for so many decades warns @krogoff"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T07:04Z 930.5K followers, 9694 engagements
"As authoritarian powers coordinate more closely the preservation of Indo-Pacific peace cannot rest on Taiwan alone argues @FEIFAN_LIN. How can other democracies help Taipei become more secure"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T11:29Z 930.4K followers, 4676 engagements
"For Israel the cold reality is that its security will suffer more from remaining this isolated than it will from abandoning Netanyahus goal: the complete subjugation of Hamas in Gaza writes @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T00:51Z 930.5K followers, 5965 engagements
"I think the narrative that Trump uniquely bullied Netanyahu into a peace deal is wildly overstated including by Trump himself says @PhilGordonDC:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T13:12Z 930.5K followers, 16.1K engagements
"In the Middle East regional elites are already hedging by cultivating China Europe Russia and other powers write @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil. This trend will only accelerate as long as the United States blithely backs Israel"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-17T03:13Z 930.5K followers, 4429 engagements
"The message Trump and Hegseth are sending is that any officers who question the presidents whims will find themselves in civilian clothes in short order writes @MaxBoot"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T20:51Z 930.5K followers, 4829 engagements
"Europes defense requires a more capable semiconductor ecosystem write @crmiller1 and John Allen. To revitalize its chip industry Europe must expand its cooperation with alliesincluding the United States"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-17T00:14Z 930.5K followers, 4244 engagements
"To limit Chinas domination of Southeast Asia the United States should strengthen its ties with Vietnam and Thailandthe two countries on the margins of Beijings zone of influence argues @SusannahCPatton"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T04:09Z 930.4K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Having fought a brutal war both sides need to understand that the cost of failure is too highand the benefits of compliance however messy too greatfor the deal to collapse writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T13:30Z 930.5K followers, 4740 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes Benn Steil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-04T13:00Z 930.5K followers, 48.5K engagements
"If Putin has aspired to be a ruthless modern tsar he is not the all-seeing all-powerful one he is often portrayed to be wrote @sbg1 in a 2019 essay. He is an elected leader even if those elections are shams"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T09:19Z 930.5K followers, 6600 engagements
"At some point Israelis will have to accept they and Palestinians would both be better off if Palestinians had a state of their own says @PhilGordonDC who served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T02:32Z 930.5K followers, 7005 engagements
"Since the war began Ukraine has held its own against Russia in large part because of its innovation advantage which is now eroding writes @MassDara. But fortunately for Kyiv Moscow can do only so much to match Ukraines qualitative edge"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T19:12Z 930.5K followers, 4440 engagements
"The United States and Europe should pledge that should Russia attack Ukraine again they will reimpose sanctions on Moscow and provide Kyiv with a massive intensification of support argue @scharap and @JyShapiro"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T14:39Z 930.4K followers, 5533 engagements
"The Trump administration should regionalize the transatlantic relationship turning its focus back to Europe and the North Atlantic where it should have been along argue @jekavanagh and @PeterSlezkine"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T09:13Z 930.5K followers, 4321 engagements
"Trumps cease-fire plan is deliberately vague allowing both Israel and Hamas to claim a narrative of triumph writes @ShiraEfron. How will the parties handle the deals ambiguity"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T17:59Z 930.5K followers, 5824 engagements
"Read @HamzawyAmr on how the international and regional guarantors of the Gaza deal can ensure successful transitions from one phase of the agreement to the nextand lay the groundwork for a more lasting settlement for Gaza"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T19:48Z 930.5K followers, 6334 engagements
"Read Zeid Raad Al Hussein on the Olmert-Kidwa plan the Holy Land Confederation and ALFAthree proposals developed by Israelis and Palestinians that offer realistic pathways for a lasting two-state solution:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T11:42Z 930.5K followers, 4391 engagements
"Although stopping the suffering in Gaza together with securing the release of hostages and prisoners is an urgent and necessary goal it remains only another form of cease-firenot a lasting peace writes Zeid Raad Al Hussein"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T22:00Z 930.5K followers, 4767 engagements
"The purge of honest and independent officials will have serious repercussions for U.S. foreign policy warns @MaxBoot. It is a recipe for the kind of groupthink that got the United States into the Vietnam and Iraq wars"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T10:18Z 930.5K followers, 5200 engagements
"If the United States reneges on its promise to transfer submarines to Australia it will cast a dark shadow over the U.S.-Australian relationshipand the tremors would be felt in Manila Seoul Taipei and Tokyo too writes James Curran"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T02:28Z 930.5K followers, 8126 engagements
"In the Middle East regional elites are already hedging by cultivating China Europe Russia and other powers write @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil. This trend will only accelerate as long as the United States blithely backs Israel"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T05:25Z 930.4K followers, 7418 engagements
"Once credibility is lost it is hard to recover writes @YarhiMilo. When Trump leaves office the United States will be left with fewer friendsand it will have to spend more to reassure the allies it still has"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T03:01Z 930.4K followers, 7851 engagements
"Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman explain how the United States can adapt to the new realities of weaponized interdependence:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T08:49Z 930.5K followers, 4097 engagements
"Washington has demonstrated that sustained and strategic involvement in the Middle East can in fact reinforce the United States position as a leading powerin contrast with its rivals write @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-16T21:50Z 930.5K followers, 4429 engagements
"Read @scharap and @JyShapiro on how American and European leaders can craft security guarantees for Ukraine that both Kyiv and Moscow will find credible:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-09T23:57Z 930.5K followers, 6598 engagements
"Arab countries know that the more they do to create a workable Palestinian administration the more likely Trump is to press Israel not only to stop the war in Gaza but also to stop its creeping annexation of the West Bank writes @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T21:40Z 930.5K followers, 7257 engagements