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<title><![CDATA[Hal Brands - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28774.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Hal Brands]]></description><category domain="28774">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How America Can Remain the World's AI Superpower]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/29/us-artificial-intelligence-supremacy-depends-taking-these-essential-steps/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The AI revolution has shaken geopolitics. Its effects will be real and lasting, and they are accumulating rapidly, in often challenging ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Trump-Xi Summit Will Actually Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/this-trump-xi-summit-will-actually-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Great-power summits can bring high drama. The encounter between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 previewed a terrifying showdown over West Berlin. The meeting between two of their successors, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Four Possible Responses to Israel--and Their Risks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/irans-four-possible-responses-to-israel-and-their-risks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attack on Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' opens the next phase of the Great Middle Eastern War that began on Oct. 7, 2023. Over the past 20 months, that war has played out on fronts across the region and has drawn in actors from around the globe.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Canada Made America Great]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/how-canada-made-america-great/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s provocative, pointless threats to annex Canada'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' helped'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mark Carney win that country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent election. Now it will represent the prime minister'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defining challenge.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Donald Trump Wields American Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/renegade-order-trump-hal-brands</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Trump wields American power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Americas First' Plan Isn't All Bad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trumps-americas-first-plan-isnt-all-bad/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even president yet, and he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s already giving US foreign policy a 19th century feel. The president-elect has spent the weeks before his inauguration promoting an epic agenda of territorial expansion in the Western Hemisphere '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and threatening to use...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Man Who Predicted Today's World Over a Century Ago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-man-who-predicted-todays-world-over-a-century-ago/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' John Maynard Keynes once'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Military Is Still Falling Behind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/even-with-1-trillion-a-year-the-us-military-is-falling-behind/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Kamala Harris, in last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate with former President Donald Trump,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' repeated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' her call for the US to maintain the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'lethal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' military. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good thought, given today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s menagerie of geopolitical malcontents.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An America First World: What Trump's Return May Mean]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-first-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Trump's return might mean for global order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Amorality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/age-amorality-liberal-brands</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America can save the liberal order through illiberal means.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Foreign Policy Had a Rough '23, &amp; '24 Looks Rougher]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/bidens-foreign-policy-had-a-rough-2023-and-2024-looks-rougher/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t been much holiday cheer for Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy left Washington last week without any new US aid for his embattled state. That may be an omen of hard times ahead in 2024. The final year of President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s term will see the present world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Myths Exposed by the Hamas Attack on Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/four-myths-exposed-by-the-hamas-attack-on-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The horror unleashed by Hamas is only beginning. A terrorist group that killed at least 1,200 people in Israel last weekend is now endangering countless Palestinian lives, through its cynical practice of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' putting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' military capabilities in hospitals, schools and dense urban areas. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine War Is a Test for the Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/ukraine-is-a-test-for-future-wars-and-the-west-is-failing/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.aei.org/op-eds/ukraine-is-a-test-for-future-wars-and-the-west-is-failing/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[SVB's Collapse Is Sobering for U.S. National Security, Too]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/svbs-collapse-is-sobering-for-us-national-security-too/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' collapse'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of Silicon Valley Bank can be viewed as a story about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bailouts,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' moral hazard,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tech bros'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who bash the government until they need its help. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also about national security and America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s clash for technological supremacy with China '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Ukraine Plan Is All About Challenging the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/chinas-ukraine-plan-is-all-about-challenging-the-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The war in Ukraine has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' already'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' been world-changing: It has isolated Russia, unified the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s democracies, and made the specter of great-power military conflict loom large. But if China is indeed on the verge of getting more involved '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' beyond the unpromising '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'peace...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Is Trying to Play Nice. It's a Problem for the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-24/china-tries-to-undermine-us-with-australia-japan-india-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Years of Beijing's bullying neighbors and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'wolf warrior'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' diplomacy helped Washington forge security and trade alliances, but Xi Jinping seems to be wising up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Every Modern War, Ukraine Has Been the Big Prize]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/in-every-modern-war-ukraine-has-been-the-big-prize/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.aei.org/op-eds/in-every-modern-war-ukraine-has-been-the-big-prize/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The biggest story of 2022 was the war in Ukraine, which put that country on the front lines of the great struggle of this century: the contest between democracy and authoritarianism. But if the war surprised many observers, the position in which Ukraine finds itself is remarkably...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the U.S. Take On China, Iran and Russia All at Once?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/can-the-us-take-on-china-iran-and-russia-all-at-once/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.aei.org/op-eds/can-the-us-take-on-china-iran-and-russia-all-at-once/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine a scenario in which, a year or two or three from now, the world is convulsed by war from Europe to the Pacific. The idea isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t as absurd as you may think. Not in decades has the US faced such prospects of near-term military confrontation in several separate theaters.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Doesn't Need a More Restrained America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-world-doesnt-need-a-more-restrained-america/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-world-doesnt-need-a-more-restrained-america/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been a bumpy year for the restraint coalition '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that loose network of analysts, advocates and politicians calling for a sharply reduced US role in the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine War Is Depleting America's Arsenal of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/russia-ukraine-war-u-s-is-running-out-of-weapons-aiding-kyiv</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/russia-ukraine-war-u-s-is-running-out-of-weapons-aiding-kyiv]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is following an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'arsenal of democracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' strategy in Ukraine: It has avoided direct intervention against the Russian invaders, while working with allies and partners to provide the Kyiv government with money and guns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Pax Americana?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2022-03-14/return-pax-americana</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2022-03-14/return-pax-americana]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States and its allies have failed to prevent Russia from brutalizing Ukraine, but they can still win the larger struggle to save the international order. Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s savage invasion has exposed the gap between Western countries'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' soaring liberal aspirations and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Reminds Biden That Nuclear Deterrence Works]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/putin-reminds-biden-that-nuclear-deterrence-works/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.aei.org/op-eds/putin-reminds-biden-that-nuclear-deterrence-works/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US president took office intending to reduce American reliance on weapons of mass destruction. Russian aggression should put that folly to rest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Eurasian Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-02-25/eurasian-nightmare</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-02-25/eurasian-nightmare]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The greatest strategic problem the United States faces is the convergence of its two main rivals, China and Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'countries that don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t always like or trust each other but nonetheless derive great benefits from their simultaneous assaults on the existing international order....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Overstretched Superpower]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-01-18/overstretched-superpower</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does America have more rivals than it can handle?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America, China and the Echoes of History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-10-19/new-cold-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t: no law guarantees either outcome. No if we mean'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Cold War, which we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Afghanistan War Wasn't a Cynical Misadventure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/the-afghanistan-war-wasn-t-a-cynical-misadventure</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/the-afghanistan-war-wasn-t-a-cynical-misadventure]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lost wars are supposed to provoke soul-searching. In America, they usually bring historical revisionism instead. When once-good wars go bad, Americans tend to conclude that there was never anything redeeming about them in the first place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Emerging Biden Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-29/emerging-biden-doctrine</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-29/emerging-biden-doctrine]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden has identified the defining strategic challenge of the twenty-first century, but the problems'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'both inherent and self-created'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'are already daunting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Containment Can Stop the China Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-containment-can-stop-china-threat-183423</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walter Lippmann was right that the Cold War would expose America to great evils. He was wrong to think that America could not, or should not, accept them as the price of avoiding even greater ones.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S.-Chinese Rivalry Is a Battle Over Values]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-03-16/us-china-rivalry-battle-over-values</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Purging ideology from American statecraft would be both ahistorical and unstrategic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Border Invasion Will Push India Toward U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-border-invasion-will-push-india-toward-u-s/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hal Brands</author>
							<description><![CDATA[India's long history of nonalignment is giving way to the threat of a shared enemy.]]></description>
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