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179481
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In late March 2015, Saudi o5cials came to the Obama administration with a message: Saudi Arabia and a coalition of partners were on the verge ofintervening in neighboring Yemen, whose leader had recently been ousted by rebels. This wasn’t exactly a bolt from the blue. The Saudis had been 4agging their growing concerns about the insurgency on their southern border for months, arguing that the rebels were proxies for their archrival, Iran.
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179488
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After the Cold War ended, it looked like democracy was on the
march. But that con#dent optimism was misplaced. With the
bene#t ofhindsight, it is clear that it was naive to expect democracy to spread to all corners ofthe world. The authoritarian turn
ofrecent years re4ects the 4aws and failings ofdemocratic systems.
Most analyses ofthe precarious state ofcontemporary democracy
begin with a similar depiction. They are not altogether incorrect.
But they omit an important part ofthe picture. The story ofthe last
two decades is not just one ofdemocratic weakness; it is also one of
authoritarian strength.
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179479
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Bismarck once said that the statesman’stask was to hear God’s footsteps marching through
history and try to catch his coattails as he went past. U.S. President GeorgeW.
Bush agreed.
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179478
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When the United States looks abroad to assess the risk of con4ict, it relies on a host of
tools to understand other countries’ social and political divisions and how likely
they are to result in unrest or violence.
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ID:
179476
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Inthe #rst lecture ofany introduction to international relations class, students are typically
warned ofthe pitiless consequences of anarchy.
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179482
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When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the event was hailed as a pivotal development for the global economic system and a bold marker ofthe country’s commitment to reform. It took 15 long years ofnegotiation to reach the deal, a re4ection of the challenge of reconciling China’s communist command economy with global trading rules and ofthe international community’s insistence that China sign on to ambitious
commitments and conditions.
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ID:
179486
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Since the early days ofthe Cold War, the United States has led
the world in technology. Over the course of the so-called
American century, the country conquered space, spearheaded
the Internet, and brought the world the iPhone. In recent years,
however, China has undertaken an impressive e+ort to claim the
mantle oftechnological leadership, investing hundreds ofbillions of
dollars in robotics, arti-cial intelligence, microelectronics, green energy, and much more.
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ID:
179484
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The COVID-19 pandemic sent U.S. policymakers scurrying to
their bookshelves, searching for responses to a public health catastrophe that threatened to plunge households, businesses, and governments into #nancial despair. Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the White House 4ipped frantically through their dog-eared playbooks
from the 1980s to determine just the right tax cut for the moment. But the chapter on society-wide lockdowns was nowhere to be found.
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ID:
179487
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When the world looks back on the response to the COVID-19
pandemic, one lesson it will draw is the value ofcompetent national governments—the kind that imposed socialdistancing restrictions, delivered clear public health messaging, and
implemented testing and contact tracing. It will also, however, recall
the importance ofthe CEOs, philanthropists, epidemiologists, doctors, investors, civic leaders, mayors, and governors who stepped in
when national leaders failed.
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179485
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The o!cial Arab-Israeli con"ict has ended. Over the past several months, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, and Morocco have normalized relations with Israel.
Oman may be on its way to doing so, and Saudi Arabia has taken
unprecedented steps in that direction. Other Arab governments maintain important, albeit discreet, ties with Israel, and further moves toward normalization appear to be only a matter oftime. Egypt and
Jordan have been at peace with Israel for decades.
The one-time pan-Arab call for a united front a
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ID:
179475
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With the storm past, it is
time to assess the damage,
clean up the mess, and mull
what to rebuild and how. Jessica
Mathews and Jonathan Kirshner survey
the broken, battered world the Biden
administration has inherited and how
its players view Washington now.
Robert Kagan traces the gulfbetween
the United States’ large geopolitical
burdens and its public’s modest preferences. And Reuben Brigety explores
the deep domestic divisions that
Americans have to overcome.
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ID:
179489
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The past #ve years ofU.S. economic policy have been noisy, as
the Trump administration and its allies in Congress pursued a
controversial agenda: a trade war with China, a push to repeal
the A!ordable Care Act, tax cuts that mostly bene#ted the well-o!, and
so on. Behind this sound and fury, however, lies a story ofquieter but
deeper economic changes that will have far-reaching implications. That
story revolves around four interconnected developments: the fall in the
natural rate ofinterest, the remarkable decline in the price ofrenewable
energy, the stubborn persistence ofin4ation below the U.S. Federal
Reserve’s target oftwo percent, and the stunningly fast collapse and
then partial rebound ofthe economy during the COVID-19 crisis.
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ID:
179480
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Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase
in the 2020s. This will be the decade ofliving dangerously. No matter what strategies the two sides pursue or what events unfold, the tension between the United States and China will grow, and competition will intensify; it is inevitable.
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ID:
179477
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All great powers have a deeply ingrained self-perception shapedbyhistorical experience,
geography, culture, beliefs, and myths. ManyChinese today yearn to recover
the greatness ofa time when they ruled unchallenged at the pinnacle oftheir
civilization, before “the century ofhumiliation.”
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ID:
179483
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Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings ofthe structures that govern global health. At the start, countries scrambled in a free-for-all for medical supplies. They imposed travel bans and tightly guarded data about the novel disease.
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