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							<title><![CDATA[What If &lsquo;America First&rsquo; Works?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-if-america-first-appears-to-work/ar-AA1QFke7</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his second term, Donald Trump has crafted a foreign policy that is more radical than that of his first but also more politically viable. The stabilizing influence of powerful Cabinet members (the so-called axis of adults) is a thing of the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right U.S. Strategy for Ukraine War Negotiations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraine-war-strategy-negotiations-thomas-wright</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How American pressure can bring the war to an acceptable end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sliding-Doors Approach to the Russia Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-sliding-doors-approach-to-the-russia-crisis/ar-AATwwlE</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Putin knows that the West will not fight for Ukraine as it is not a NATO ally, so traditional military deterrence will not work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Needs to Show Democracy Can Deliver]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/06/joe-biden-foreign-policy/619130/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has put his finger on an important geopolitical development.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China and the U.S. Finally Get Real With Each Other]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/the-us-and-china-finally-get-real-with-each-other/618345/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The exchange in Alaska may have seemed like a debacle, but it was actually a necessary step to a more stable relationship between the two countries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Chart a Bold Path in His Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/biden-must-master-politics-foreign-policy/617181/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His presidency may be the establishment's last best chance to demonstrate that liberal internationalism is a superior strategy to populist nationalism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bolton Does a Service to the Nation by Speaking Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-matters-most-is-that-bolton-publishes-the-book-before-the-election/ar-BB15EvFQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am not a fan of John Bolton. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve written several critical essays about his time as national security adviser. He is incapable of strategic thought, he failed to run a proper interagency process and excluded people he personally disagreed with on issues, he tried to box Donald...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Stuck in a Vicious Downward Spiral]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/we-ve-now-entered-the-final-phase-of-the-trump-era/ar-BB14UK5y</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are in the G'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¶').';'tterd'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¤').';'mmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era. We began with the axis of adults that imperfectly constrained him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Should Handle China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/how-should-biden-handle-china/612052/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Look to Europe for lessons.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coronavirus Is Exposing the Limits of Populism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/geopolitics-coronavirus/607414/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Expertise matters. Institutions matter. There is such a thing as the global community. The system must be made to work again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taiwan Stands Up to Xi: How China Miscalculated]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Taiwan can seem like the third rail of international diplomacy. If a country wants a good relationship with China, Beijing has effectively stated, it cannot have a meaningful relationship with Taiwan. Just this week, the city of Shanghai'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' broke off'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' official contacts with the city of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Yes Men Have Taken Over Trump Administration]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debate on President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s foreign policy in his first two years in office revolved around the question of what mattered more: the policy or the tweets.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Is Leaving Bolton on the Sidelines]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/trump-tries-to-fix-his-foreign-policy-without-bolton/593284/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president moves to straighten out his own foreign policy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and leaves his hawkish national security adviser on the sidelines.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Place China at Center of Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/how-democrats-can-beat-trump-foreign-policy-2020/589360/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of echoing Trump's themes, the presidential contenders should explain how they will prevail in America's multifaceted competition with China.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Jekyll and Hyde Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trumps-jekyll-and-hyde-foreign-policy-214903</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s novel of 1886, tells the story of the seemingly virtuous Dr. Henry Jekyll who drinks a serum that transforms him into Mr. Edward Hyde so he is free to indulge his vices without fear of discovery. Donald Trump was...]]></description>
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