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Paul Poast

Death Without Deterrence, or Why Tripwire Forces are Not Enough

In the News
War on the Rocks
Paul Poast

The Council's Paul Poast argues "Let’s achieve peace by planning for victory rather than for human sacrifice."

Tripwire Forces
Gunnery Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus
Defense and Security

The Truth About Tripwires: Why Small Force Deployments Do Not Deter Aggression

In the News
Texas National Security Review
Paul Poast

Paul Poast discusses strategies for US troops.

Defense and Security

Alliance of Democracies—from America First to American Led

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Global Insight by Paul Poast

Can an administration that up to this point has been belligerent towards traditional US democratic allies and has rejected many forms of multilateralism be able to turn the page and shift from "America First" to "American Led"?

An American flag waving in wind, across a hazy sky
James Balensiefen
US Foreign Policy

Changing the Rules of International Relations - Paul Poast on COVID-19

In the News
University of Chicago
Paul Poast

Paul Poast discusses how COVID-19 will change the global economy, US-China relations and the World Health Organization.

Paul Poast speaks about COVID-19. Global Health

America First vs. Spider-Man — A Debate on Supporting Pro-Democracy Protests

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Rochelle Terman and Paul Poast join Deep Dish to debate the two competing options for prodemocracy movements - "America first" and "Spider-Man."

Police officers escort man dressed as Spiderman away after he installed banner in front of big screen in central Hong Kong.
Reuters
Global Politics

War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong about Conflict

In the News
Foreign Affairs
Paul Poast

The political turmoil of recent years has largely disabused us of the notion that the world has reached some sort of utopian ‘end of history.’ And yet it can still seem that ours is an unprecedented era of peace and progress.

American troops board plane
Reuters
Defense and Security