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Australian trade union members marching through Pitt Street, Sydney in September 2018

Hostile Conditions Might Increase Cycles of Labor Unrest in the Global South

Luis Rubén González Márquez

Blog / June 27, 2025

The United States Hit Iran: What Happens Next?

David Lake

Blog / June 25, 2025

President of Russia Vladimir Putin with General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping at the military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Five Questions on the Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis

Blog / June 25, 2025

Young men in military uniforms on Red Square in Moscow against the background of the Kremlin. A detachment of soldiers of the Russian army: Moscow, Russia, 2019

Patriots and Mercenaries: Five Questions on Ethnicity in Russia’s Army

Jesse Driscoll

Blog / June 16, 2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, 2019.

Russia is Capitalizing on Economic Distress to Accrue Influence in Africa

William Decourt and Spenser Warren

Blog / June 13, 2025

Young protesters outside the State College Municipal Building in 2020

Generation Z Needs a New Way to Engage in the World

Ty McGlynn

Blog / June 03, 2025

Image of the China Bank in New York City with an American flag flying nearby.

How Washington is Ceding its Geoeconomic Edge to China

Audrye Wong

Blog / May 30, 2025

A close up of a computer mother board

The Accomplishments and Contradictions of China’s Semiconductor Industrial Policy

Ming-yen Ho

Blog / May 29, 2025

Migrants who crossed the border illegally, surrender near El Paso, TX

How Gender and Economics Shape Attitudes Towards Immigration

Jieun Park

Blog / May 28, 2025

The EAST fusion-research tokamak at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.

Fusion and China’s Quest for Energy Independence

Jimmy Goodrich

Blog / May 27, 2025

Chinese soldiers with the People's Liberation Army, Mongolia 2015.

China is Militarizing—Will that Make War More Likely?

Tai Ming Cheung

Blog / May 19, 2025

An image of a cargo ship transporting multiple colorful shipping containers. An American flag waves in the foreground.

America Can’t Tariff Its Way Back to Greatness

Seung-Youn Oh

Blog / May 16, 2025

Trading ship docked in the Baltimore Port

What Tariff World Are We In?

Stephan Haggard and Barry Naughton

Blog / May 13, 2025

A debate podium with two microphones

A Debate on What Liberalism Is and Isn’t

Stephan Haggard and Clifford Bob

Blog / May 08, 2025

President Donald Trump stands in front of a large wall depicting the American flag

Will Trump’s Tariffs Make America Great?

Daniel Kono

Blog / April 30, 2025

Photo of a Russian flag flying above a building in front of a blue sky

Russian Economic Statecraft During the 4th Year of War

Vasily Kashin, Alexandra Yankova, and Kristina Kondakova

Blog / April 29, 2025

President Donald Trump talks to members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House. October, 2019.

Flooding the Zone—Foreign Policy Edition

Michaela Mattes

Blog / April 28, 2025

A new AI deep-learning model, entitled COMPOSER, was deployed in emergency departments at UC San Diego Health to quickly predict sepsis infection in high-risk patients.

Technology-Powered Public Goods are Possible—With Strategy

Tim Marple

Blog / April 14, 2025