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Laura Fernandez
Latin America

Right-wing populism has Costa Rica at a crossroads

Increasing incidents of violence due to narco trafficking as well as rising inequality fueled Laura Fernández's recent election victory

NATO Arctic
Global Crises

Is NATO creating an Arctic crisis to placate Trump?

The alliance's buildup to confront questionable Russian and Chinese threats lacks the diplomacy necessary to stave off escalation

Us-army-soldiers
Military Industrial Complex

Could the US win a war with a near-peer adversary today?

It's about manpower, material, and most importantly, how we choose to use our military forces. We're doing it all wrong.

G7 Summit
Asia-Pacific

Middle Powers are setting the table so they won't be 'on the menu'

Often crossing continents, 'workarounding' is a strategy allowing states to cooperate on trade and policy outside rigid U.S.-China alignments.

United Nations
Global Crises

We're burying the rules based order. But what's next?

Great power rivalry may actually make multilateral reform more rather than less likely. Here's how.

nuclear weapons testing
Global Crises

Nuke treaty loss a 'colossal' failure that could lead to nuclear arms race

Vermont Senator says work needs to be done now to reinvigorate discussions with Russia, as well as with China, which now has an estimated 600 nukes