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The quiet architecture of the minilateral age
The great institutions of the post-war order are still standing. The work has moved somewhere else.
Sanctions are judged on the wrong scoreboard
Coercive economic measures rarely change a government's mind. That is not the same as saying they fail.
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The resident ambassador was supposed to be obsolete
Leaders can call each other directly. Embassies kept growing anyway — and the reason is not sentiment.
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Sanctions are judged on the wrong scoreboard
Coercive economic measures rarely change a government's mind. That is not the same as saying they fail.
4 min read Sample
The resident ambassador was supposed to be obsolete
Leaders can call each other directly. Embassies kept growing anyway — and the reason is not sentiment.
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Chokepoints are a form of foreign policy
Control of a narrow passage — physical or financial — increasingly does the work that alliances used to do.
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What deterrence actually asks of a state
It is not a posture or a budget line. It is a claim about someone else's reasoning — and it can be true or false.
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