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The Iran war is not the perfect storm. But it shows us the shape of one — fiscal, energy, payments, alliance — and which combination would push the dollar over.
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The Iran war is not the perfect storm. But it shows us the shape of one — fiscal, energy, payments, alliance — and which combination would push the dollar over.
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Why the Bretton Woods order is more durable than its critics think — and which of its components are actually under strain.
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What the regime has done, what it has failed to do, and the second-order effects no one priced in.
A defense scholar's framework for thinking about cross-Strait deterrence over the next two decades.
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The book most often quoted at our convenings — and most often qualified, gently, by the people quoting it.