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Why 9/11 Baffles Us 25 Years Later
It’s the strategic disaster that keeps on giving. 
25 Years After 9/11, What Are We Failing to Imagine Now?
The counterterrorism community struggles with how technology might be applied to novel use cases.
What Was the War on Terror?
A defining period in U.S. foreign policy has ended, but it remains misunderstood.
Discarding an Old Map and Seeing Africa With Fresh Eyes
The continent offers solutions to some of the West’s most vexing problems.
Don’t Blame Ukraine for High Gas Prices
Kyiv’s energy war on Russia may hurt on the margins, but the real culprit is Trump’s war on Iran.
In the Magazine
Current Issue: Fall 2026 print
Archives
How to Survive in a World Without Rules
Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world.
The World’s Only Real Hope of Maintaining Order
A proposal for a new international system that is at once centralized and regionalized.
Asia-Pacific
The Paradox of Prabowonomics
China
Why Is China’s Officer Corps So Sprawling?
Europe
Why Germany Isn’t Punishing Russia Harder
Middle East & Africa
How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy.
Americas
Trump Has Peaked
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A dimly light photograph shows U.S. President George W. Bush in profile, looking out the window of Air Force One while he speaks on the phone. The plane behind him is dark, leaving his back in shadow and his face lit up by the window. What Was the War on Terror?
A defining period in U.S. foreign policy has ended, but it remains misunderstood.
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Black and white photograph showing a line of uniformed service members seen from behind, looking up at five military airplanes flying overhead in formation against a cloudy sky. A Book as Big as the War
‘1942’ offers an epic, brilliant vision of global conflict.
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For the foreseeable future, successful statecraft will depend on hedging.
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