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3 weeks ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Ted Snider |Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
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Foreign Affairs
To Get an Iran Deal, Trump Should Stop Threatening War
U.S. intelligence has determined that Tehran isn’t building the bomb.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The intelligence community is the eyes and ears of the White House. Presidents only know what it tells them.
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3 weeks ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Eric Schmitt |Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
Foreign Affairs
Europe Needs Trump’s New Realism
An overcommitted America’s priorities lie elsewhere.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... From the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, American foreign policy was oriented toward a singular goal: defeating Soviet communism. In the 21st century, however, the greatest threat to core American interests is no longer located on the borders of Europe.
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2 months ago | 
thecritic.co.uk | René Girard |Byrne Hobart |Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
Humanity can’t stay stagnant for long There are books that appear to gauge the vitality of a certain place and time, and Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation is one of them. It will mark this decade as one of the most optimistic works on the condition of the Western world.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski |Sumantra Maitra
Foreign Affairs
Europe Is Woefully Unprepared for Trump II
The Europeans really are about to be “alone in Europe.”
The decline of past empires always began with a loss of the ability to adapt to changing environments. The American empire postponed its adjustment to the post-1989 environment until the tenure of the 45th president. It was Donald Trump who drew conclusions from the transformations in the international order after 1989.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski |Emmanuel Todd
REVIEW ESSAYLe Défaite de l’Occidentby Emmanuel ToddGallimard, 2024, 384 pagesEmmanuel Todd’s latest book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), begins by listing the many surprises of the war in Ukraine. First, the war erupted in Europe, the paradise where history was supposed to have ended for good. The second surprise is that the war in Ukraine has relatively little to do with Europe; the decisive actors are Russia and the United States.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk On the Edge, the new book by the brilliant political forecaster and poker player Nate Silver, is one of the most interesting works of the post-Covid era. As the author notes, the pandemic has exposed a significant divide not only among individuals but, more importantly, between elites: risk preference. However, On the Edge is not merely about intra-elite rivalry.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life Critics of the EU often point out that Europarliamentary elections have no influence on the direction of Brussels’ policies. They serve primarily as an exile or springboard for fringe politicians. In the case of France, however, the Euro elections played the role of a catalyst: Le Pen’s party, led by Jordan Bardella, positioned the vote as a referendum on Macron’s second term.
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May 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
Just four decades ago, many saw Japan as the successor to the United States as the world’s “number one.” Ezra F. Vogel wrote in his famous 1979 book, Japan as Number One, that “Japan has dealt more successfully with more of the basic problems of postindustrial society than any other country.” As its economy continued to expand, anxieties about the “Japanese threat” became increasingly palpable.
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May 19, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU In Ever Closer Union, Perry Anderson highlights the poverty of contemporary European reflection on the EU. For the past few decades, it has been America that has shaped the Old Continent’s imagination. This has been recently on display during the discussion about the world’s increasingly pronounced shift toward neomercantilism.
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May 15, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
Politics
What Does Richard Nixon’s Prophet Tell Us About 2024?
The late Kevin Phillips pointed the way toward a populist-driven American renewal.
The late Kevin Phillips is the most underrated theorist of American populism. The brilliant strategist behind Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” dubbed by some the “Karl Marx of the American middle class,” devoted nearly half a century of reflection to the evolutions of the Republican Party.
