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** RESEARCH
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** The 2025 NSS and Restraint: Experts React
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Quincy Institute, 12/11/25
Quincy Institute experts offer their individual assessments of this year's National Security Strategy.
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** Pete Hegseth Is Turning Political Theater Into Lethal Force
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By Deputy Middle East Director Adam Weinstein
Foreign Policy, 12/17/25
The administration’s boat strikes are hard to defend as anything other than made-for-social media displays of toughness, divorced from any serious assessment of U.S. security.
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** Trump's Venezuela Oil Obsession Doesn't Make Sense
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By Senior Research Fellow Karthik Sankaran
Responsible Statecraft, 12/17/25
The president accused Caracas of 'stealing' the commodity and vows to take it back. First, we don't need it, second, invading for it would be a blunder.
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** European Alarmism Could Fuel a U.S. Backlash to NATO
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By Non-Resident Fellow Eldar Mamedov
The American Conservative, 12/17/25
Moral absolutism is not a strategy but a rhetorical accelerant, transforming a complex geopolitical conflict into a metaphysical crusade against evil and foreclosing any off-ramp but total victory or total defeat.
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** DIGITAL
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** What Is the Significance of Trump's Deal with Belarus?
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Panel featuring Research Fellow Mark Episkopos
Inside Story/ Al Jazeera, 12/14/25
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** Are Russia and India Growing Closer?
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Panel featuring Global South Director Sarang Shidore
NEST Centre, 12/12/25
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** Netanyahu Is Back Demanding More War with Iran ([link removed])
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By Executive Vice President Trita Parsi
Substack, 12/20/25
** Marwan Barghouti and the Crisis of Palestinian Nationalism ([link removed])
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Interview with Senior Research Fellow Khaled Elgindy
History as It Happens with Martin DiCaro, 12/19/25
** Does the War Machine Control Your Social Media Feed? ([link removed])
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Interview with Tech Journalist Taylor Lorenz
Always at War/ Quincy Institute, 12/19/25
** Venezuela Under Siege ([link removed])
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Interview with Non-Resident Fellow Miguel Tinker Salas
Radio War Nerd, 12/17/25
** War or Bluff? Tucker Carlson's Leak ([link removed])
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Interview with Senior Advisor Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
The Kyle Anzalone Show, 12/17/25
** Who Controls Southern Yemen? ([link removed])
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Interview with Research Associate Annelle Sheline
American Prestige, 12/17/25
** BROADCAST
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** The Defense Bill Includes More Than Just Defense Spending ([link removed])
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Interview with Senior Research Fellow William Hartung
Marketplace/ NPR, 12/15/25
** ARTICLES
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** EU Avoids Risky Precedent in Ukraine Aid Deal ([link removed])
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By Non-Resident Fellow Molly O’Neal
Responsible Statecraft, 12/19/15
** Military Contractors Reap Big Profits in War-to-Homeland Pipeline ([link removed])
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By Reporter Stavroula Pabst
Responsible Statecraft, 12/19/25
** US Ops in Caribbean Cause Near-Miss with Jet Blue Plane ([link removed])
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By Reporter Stavroula Pabst
Responsible Statecraft, 12/19/25
** After Strike on American Troops, What’s Next For the US in Syria? ([link removed])
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By Anna Mulrine Grobe/ Quoted: Deputy Middle East Director Adam Weinstein
Christian Science Monitor, 12/18/25
** They Are Calling Fast-Track Ukraine EU Bid 'Nonsense.' So Why Dangle It? ([link removed])
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By Non-Resident Fellow Ian Proud
Responsible Statecraft, 12/18/25
** Trump Shouldn't Overplay His Hand with Chile's New President ([link removed])
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By Non-Resident Fellow Jorge Heine
Responsible Statecraft, 12/18/25
** House Unable to Halt Venezuela War March ([link removed])
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By Reporter Stavroula Pabst
Responsible Statecraft, 12/17/25
** How Trump's National Security Strategy Impacts the Middle East ([link removed])
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By Giorgio Cafiero/ Quoted: Executive Vice President Trita Parsi
The New Arab, 12/17/25
** The ‘Trump Corollary’: What Has the President Added to Monroe? ([link removed])
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By Ted Snider/ Quoted: Non-Resident Fellow Greg Grandin
The American Conservative, 12/17/25
** Trump Shouldn’t Give Ukraine NATO-Like Guarantees ([link removed])
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By Andrew Day/ Quoted: Research Fellow Mark Episkopos
The American Conservative, 12/17/25
** Washington and Brussels Play Good Cop, Bad Cop On Belarus ([link removed])
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By Rikard Jozwiak/ Quoted: Research Fellow Mark Episkopos
Radio Free Europe, 12/17/25
** ‘Collective Security’ Is on Life Support ([link removed])
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By Board Member Stephen Walt
Foreign Policy, 12/16/25
** Israel's All-Seeing Eye Is the Stealthiest Cruelty of All in Gaza ([link removed])
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By Reporter Connor Echols
Responsible Statecraft, 12/16/25
** Plurality of Republicans Say End US Aid to Israel: Poll ([link removed])
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By Reporter Connor Echols
Responsible Statecraft, 12/16/25
** Afghanistan, Michael Hastings, and Me ([link removed])
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By Senior Advisor Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Antiwar.com, 12/15/25
** A Farewell to Oz: Trump’s Strategy for a Multipolar World ([link removed])
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By Grand Strategy Director George Beebe
Responsible Statecraft, 12/15/25
** Did Mission Creep Kill 3 Americans in Syria? ([link removed])
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By Senior Research Fellow Steven Simon
Responsible Statecraft, 12/15/25
** Trump’s Dated Strategy Is Putting Us on a Path to World War III ([link removed])
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By Non-Resident Fellow Greg Grandin
New York Times, 12/15/25
** Southeast Asia Barely Features in America’s New Security Strategy ([link removed])
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By Maria Siow/ Quoted: Global South Director Sarang Shidore,
South China Morning Post, 12/14/25
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