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July 2023
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Christian Caryl Decodes Putin’s Fragile Empire
From Chechnya to Ukraine, from Moscow’s weakened diplomacy to the rise of open-source intelligence, Christian Caryl sees a Russian system far more fragile than it appears.In this five-part conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, the Foreign Policy Magazine columnist explains how Putin’s vulnerabilities are multiplying: Ramzan Kadyrov’s uncertain future, Ukraine’s drone warfare deep inside Russia, Moscow’s dependence […]
When U.S. Foreign Policy Loses Its Doctrine
Foreign policy is ultimately built on two foundations: power and credibility. Power allows a state to act. Credibility determines whether others believe its actions will be sustained long enough to matter. When policy becomes dominated by short-term transactions rather than strategic doctrine, trust erodes and credibility declines. The transactional trap undermines trust and creates a […]
The Liberal Case for Censorship
Free speech is a practice with preconditions, and our adversaries have learned to dismantle them. Defending those conditions is the most liberal thing a democracy can do. In the fall of 2023, Israeli television broadcast footage of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7. The videos showed emaciated, desperate, terrorized captives speaking directly to camera, […]
