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The US has been the lone superpower since the end of the Cold War, but China is catching up fast – faster than most Americans yet realize, according to Graham Allison, the founding dean of Harvard's Kennedy School. And that is a problem, because throughout history Professor Allison can show multiple examples of established powers being challenged by rising powers, and war ensuing.
Winston Churchill, 'an imperialist and a conservative', and George Orwell, 'an almost monk-like socialist', shared one burning conviction: the absolute need to preserve individual liberty during an era in the 1930's when totalitarian systems from the left and the right were sweeping the world.
President Trump's unpredictability in his foreign policy is either a masterful way of keeping foreign opponents off balance, or a lamentable lack of leadership that is destabilizing Asia and the Middle East. The inquiry into Russian hacking of the elections is either a red herring or could lead to the downfall of his presidency.
Europe is a troubled continent – and the long term trend lines are not good, according to James Kirchick, a writer and reporter who spent four years living in Germany and traveling widely throughout Europe.
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To many observers, ISIS appears to be made up of a group of psychopathic, destructive thugs with no genuine religious motivation, whose penchant for brutality almost beggars belief. But according to Graeme Wood, an Arabic-speaking writer for The Atlantic, when one talks to ISIS members the real picture that emerges is somewhat different – and in some ways even more chilling.
After 12 years in power when she seemed untouchable in German politics, Chancellor Angela Merkel suddenly faces a real challenge from the new leader of the SDP party, Martin Schulz, according to John Emerson, the former US ambassador to Germany.
The dangers of an accidental clash between Russian and US forces escalating to a serious confrontation are increasing, particularly in Syria, largely because there is so little regular communication between the two sides. 'When I was in the Clinton White House, senior officials talked to their Russian counterparts all the time – but that doesn't happen any more,' said Andrew Weiss, a Russia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
William Parker, the COO of the East West Institute, said there are five main threats to national security: the mounting national debt, political hyper-partisanship, a worldwide refugee crisis, terrorists with access to weapons of mass destruction, and a group of state actors who bear some hostility to the US.
There is a chance of some progress towards peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the era of President Trump's administration because of the coalition of convenience between Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates that has come together in the past few years, according to former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Haim Koren.
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