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Diplomacy in Great Power Competition and the Limits of Economic Statecraft

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Challenging Disarmament Disinformation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesalliances, China, coercion, Deterrence, Diplomacy, economic diplomacy, economic pressure, economic statecraft, extended deterrence, Foreign Policy, global politics, global security, Great Power Competition, innovation, international cooperation, international relations, investment, Military Strategy, nuclear triad, power rivalry, punitive deterrence, sanctions, tariffs, Thucydides Trap, Trade, United States

Diplomacy in Great Power Competition and the Limits of Economic Statecraft

Hafiz Ibrahim1 Comment

As contemporary rivals, the United States and China echo historical patterns of major competition between an established and a rising power, described within Graham Allison's article, “The Thucydides Trap: Are…

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How Trade Disputes Threaten the Future of Arms Control

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesaccountability, American exports, American global leadership, Arms Control, China, consensus, cyber warfare, dialogue, diplomatic relations, disarmament, equilibrium, fragmented world order, great powers, innovation, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, military effectiveness, Muhammad Shahzad Akram, multilateralism, mutual respect, New START, nuclear deterrent, proliferation, protectionist policies, rare Earth minerals, restraint, sanctions, shipbuilding capacity, South Korea, strategy, tariffs, technological superiority, Trade disputes, transparency, trust, Ukraine conflict, US Army Science Board, US Navy, verification

How Trade Disputes Threaten the Future of Arms Control

Muhammad Shahzad Akram0 Comments

Global arms control regimes are built on the pillars of trust, dialogue, transparency, mutual respect, restraint, verification, and, most critically, consensus among great powers. However, leadership in this domain risks…

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Our Delusional Presidential Campaigns

Archive, Government & Politics, Strategic AdversariesAmerican prosperity, Defense buildup, Defense Spending, domestic pressures, Donald Trump, economic illiteracy, economic policies, generational change, international challenges, media scrutiny, military modernization, National debt, presidential campaigns, security, tariffs, Vice President Kamala Harris, world leadership

Our Delusional Presidential Campaigns

Stephen Blank1 Comment

To date, both presidential campaigns have mostly evaded any serious discussion of the real issues challenging the United States. When they have discussed them, they have interspersed potentially serious ideas…

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