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The End of the Global Aid Industry

USAID’s Demise Is an Opportunity to Prioritize Industrialization Over Charity

By Zainab Usman

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A soldier of the European Union Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, April 2025

Europe Needs a New Way to Cooperate

How to Fill the Gaps Created by the EU’s and NATO’s Shortcomings

By Sophia Besch and Richard Youngs

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Washington, D.C., February 2025

The Real Lesson of Signalgate

A Surveillance Arms Race Has Poked a Gaping Hole in National Security

By Ronald J. Deibert

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A member of Bamar People’s Liberation Army in Karen State, Myanmar, February 2024

China’s Double Game in Myanmar

How Beijing Is Manipulating Civil Conflict to Secure Regional Dominance

By Ye Myo Hein

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