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The Price of American Authoritarianism
Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt consider how to reverse democratic decline.
How China Wins the Future
Elizabeth Economy lays out Beijing’s strategy to seize the new frontiers of power.
The Allies After America
Philip Gordon and Mara Karlin warn that U.S. partners need a Plan B.
The End of the Israel Exception
Andrew Miller calls for a new paradigm for American policy.
In McNamara at War: A New History, Philip and William Taubman offer a judicious and in-depth study of the role that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara played in sustaining the Vietnam War,
