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Bracing for Trump 2.0

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Foreign Affairs
Daniel W. Drezner

"Many global actors are anxious about the 2024 US presidential election," writes Nonresident Senior Fellow Dan Drezner in Foreign Affairs.

Donald Trump places hand over heart in front of a crowd in Waco, TX, podium with a sign bearing his name at right.
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China's Ambitions and George Kennan's Legacy

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Security Dilemma
Paul Heer

Paul Heer weighs in on how Xi Jinping thinks and what role the intelligence community should play in foreign policy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on screen at the Museum of the Communist Party of China
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Trump Didn’t Invent Isolationism

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Foreign Policy
Jordan Tama

History suggests the Republican Party will continue to argue over foreign policy beyond the MAGA era.

Former President Donald Trump stepping off his plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on August 24, 2023.
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BRICS’ Expansion Is Aimed at Upending the Western-Led Order

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

Even if BRICS has not yet accomplished anything concrete, the message of dissatisfaction its expansion sends to the West is deafening, Paul Poast writes.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the XV BRICS summit declaration
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Global Politics

Watching US Military Assistance in Africa Go up in Smoke

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Crashing the War Party
Coauthors

Elizabeth Shackelford and Emma Sanderson join the podcast to unpack a new report on why US-Africa policy isn't working.

Nigerian special forces and Chadian troops participate with US advisors in the Flintlock exercise
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The Risk of Framing Geopolitics as Us vs. Them

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Jurist
Elizabeth Shackelford

Leaning into the binary distinction between autocracies and autocracies doesn't seem to serve US interests, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

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Food Systems Harm People and Planet - Here Is How We Fix That

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Devex
Ertharin Cousin

Food systems are just as culpable for the accelerating global planetary health, human health, and poverty crises as they are capable of generating the solutions necessary to fix them.

 Cattle are brought to the paddock for milking and watering.
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Food and Agriculture

Diplomacy and Africa

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Security Dilemma
Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford joins the podcast to discuss conflict in Somalia, the coup in Niger, and tensions in Southern Africa.

Nigerien national guardsmen sit outside the customs offices in Niamey
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Russia's War Crimes in Ukraine Have Devastating Consequences for Global Food Security

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Agri-Pulse
Dan Glickman

Russia intends to win its brutal offensive against Ukraine by any means necessary—even if those means condemn millions to hunger and starvation.

A dump track unloads grain in a granary in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine.
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Food and Agriculture

Biden's Foreign Policy Looks an Awful Lot like Trump's

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

US foreign policy under Biden is being built on a foundation established by his predecessor, Paul Poast argues.

Biden stands in front of the NATO flag
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