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As the global security environment becomes more challenging, the need to adapt alliances increases as well.

Western countries should use national and international tools to hinder Wagner’s growing global abuse, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Matt Abbott argues why local and state diplomacy is critical "to ensure long-term success for cities and states that engage with international entities."

There are growing efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to diminish economic disparities between thriving global city regions and struggling communities in industrial heartlands.

"We have to deal with China and the way to deal with it is to engage with it," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer in the Wire China.

"While Russia can’t win, it won’t lose. Instead, it will hold out until Ukraine is willing to bargain," Paul Poast writes.

“Both sides continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.

By tying itself to China, Germany risks making its mistakes with Russia all over again, argues Senior Nonresident Fellow John Austin.

The election for speaker of the Republican-majority House was a bad omen for US aid to Ukraine and US democracy, Paul Poast writes.

Craig Kafura offers insights into Washington's ties with Tokyo.