For the past two decades, Washington has made an enormous bet in the Indo-Pacific – that treating India as a key partner will help the … Read the rest
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One-State Reality
The history of what is now Palestine and Israel is a complicated one that started when the Hashemite Sherif Hussein and notably also his son Faisal I … Read the rest
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The Xi-Biden Meeting
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden will sit down for a rare face-to-face during the G-20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on … Read the rest
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Can a Potential Future Pacific War be Avoided? Part 6
In part one, we gave a general overview of the 1919 or “Wilsonian moment,” a notion that extends before and after that calendar year, … Read the rest
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The Old Order is Crumbling, and a New Order is Rising
The end of Empires
In all the occupied areas of the Japanese, the three policies agreed on in November 1941 were applied with mixed results. … Read the rest
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Axis States Understood they settled the Moral Low Ground
US hesitancy in joining WWII
As we have seen in the previous part between the Pearl Harbor attack and Hitler’s declaration of war on the … Read the rest
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The Second World War Created the Conditions for Transforming Europe and the Entire Global Geo-political Order
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the … Read the rest
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Creating a New World Order
The geopolitical transformation of Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s leaders understood that war with the United States was far from ideal. Still, it also ended … Read the rest
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Gorbachev’s Reform
Shultz would not let the matter rest, however. He told the president, “To succeed, we have to have a team: right now there isn’t one. … Read the rest