International Affairs
The "America trap" shows underestimation of US power. Americans saw their nation as a world power but balked at the responsibilities that came with it. Read an excerpt of Robert Kagan's latest book in The Washington Post.
Scholz is a wartime chancellor, whether he likes it or not. Constanze Stelzenmüller writes in Financial Times that the German leader and his new defense minister have a big decision to make on supplying tanks to Ukraine.
A new path for Syria's Kurds. In a dramatic reversal in its foreign policy, Ankara is now looking to normalize relations with Damascus. In War on the Rocks, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Julien Barnes-Dacey lay out the consequences for Turkish-Syrian normalization.
How the war in Ukraine hinders US-Russian nuclear arms control. The United States and Russia have an interest in nuclear risk reduction and in constraining their competition in nuclear arms. However, Steven Pifer argues in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that mistrust over the breakout of war in Ukraine has significantly hampered further negotiations.
Domestic terrorism is evolving. Scott Englund writes that while countering domestic terrorism has risen as a national priority, threats against U.S. interests remain.
