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US Warns of North Korean Threat Amid Winter Olympic Diplomacy

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WTTW
Karl Friedhoff

Can Olympic diplomacy really defuse the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula?

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The next supreme leader could transform Iran

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Al Jazeera
Saeid Golkar

What happens after Ayatollah Khamenei leaves office or dies?

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Where Are the World's Most Fragile Cities?

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CityLab
Robert Muggah

Climate change, economic inequality, and political unrest are making some of the world's fastest-growing cities dangerously unstable. But even the most fragile places are fixable.

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Responding to Russia's Resurgence

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Foreign Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder

Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses.

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The Morality of the City

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City Lab
Ian Klaus

In his new book The Ordinary Virtues, the writer and politician Michael Ignatieff reveals the “moral operating systems” that keep cities together.

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Is Populism Making a Comeback in Latin America?

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Having rejected its demagogues just a few years ago, the region is now poised to welcome them back.

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Opinion: Recipe for Creating Zero Hunger

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AgriPulse
Ertharin Cousin

Ending hunger and chronic malnutrition remains within our grasp. However, we must recognize that there is a global reversal of a decades-long downward trend in the number of hungry people.

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How voters now see Donald Trump's America First agenda

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Financial Times
Ivo H. Daalder

Are the policies touted on the campaign trail losing their appeal?

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Donald Trump has made liberal internationalism great again

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Washington Post
Daniel W. Drezner

Donald Trump expressed a lot of themes in his inaugural address, but the overriding one was that foreign policy would be conducted through the prism of America first.

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Foreign Policy and the Trump Administration

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C-SPAN
Coauthors

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Wilson Center co-hosted a panel discussion about the results of a Chicago Council survey of public attitudes on foreign policy and the Trump administration.

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