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Nov 27, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Robert Manning |Yun Sun |Jeremy Shapiro |Zaha Hassan
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** President Joe Biden has now entered the “lame duck” period of his presidency. He has only a few weeks left to make foreign policy moves that could cement his legacy.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Robert Manning |Mathew Burrows
Biden’s Foreign Policy Legacy: A Troubled Interregnum As the limits of U.S. power became more obvious, the Biden administration sought to perpetuate a fading primacy. Read Full Article »
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Robert Manning |Mathew Burrows
Editor’s Note: The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with the Stimson Center. Drawing upon the legacy of the CIA’s Red Cell—established following the September 11 attacks to avoid similar analytic failures in the future—the project works to challenge assumptions, misperceptions, and groupthink with a view to encouraging alternative approaches to America’s foreign and national security policy challenges. For more information about the Stimson Center’s Red Cell Project, see here.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 00684-2&sz=64)
cell.com | Robert Manning
SignificanceA method for approximating a DNA cyclization J factor is developed that is computationally efficient and agrees well with the true value (as assessed via Monte Carlo simulations). Examples show differences in J based on sequence (e.g., due to intrinsic bending) and length (in the 200–400 bp window); these differences can be attributed separately to energy versus entropic factors based on the approximation formula.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Robert Manning
Upon taking office in 1957 in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, British Prime Minister Harold McMillan was asked what was his biggest foreign policy challenge. He famously replied, “Events, dear boy, events.” Regardless of official national security strategies, more often than not, much of an administration’s foreign policy tends to be reactions to events, Ukraine and Gaza being two prominent, modern examples.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Mathew Burrows |Robert Manning
Editor’s Note: The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with the Stimson Center. Drawing upon the legacy of the CIA’s Red Cell—established following the September 11 attacks to avoid similar analytic failures in the future—the project works to challenge assumptions, misperceptions, and groupthink with a view to encouraging alternative approaches to America’s foreign and national security policy challenges. For more information about the Stimson Center’s Red Cell Project, see here.
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May 31, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Robert Manning
1 hour agoWhile Democrats rejoice and Republicans agonise, international reactions on the historic guilty verdict pour in. Former US President Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, making him the first convicted …
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May 1, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Robert Manning
What is the endgame of U.S. policy toward China? Can the U.S. avoid a war with China? Much of the debate about how U.S. policy should cope with an ambitious, reemergent China, turns on those questions. In what seems at once both a job application and a declaration of war, two prominent China critics — former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger and just retired chair of House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Rep.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
archive.is | David Polansky |Robert Manning |Mathew Burrows |Michael Kugelman
There’s a scene in Sam Raimi’s classic horror-comedy Evil Dead II in which the protagonist saws off his own zombified hand and traps it under a copy of A Farewell to Arms. This is an intentional joke, but a similar titular misreading has haunted another 1980s classic: Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. Due to a combination of the title’s pithiness and its well-established place on college syllabi, few works of social science have been so widely misunderstood.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Robert Manning
The vexing question looming over the Israel-Gaza conflict, which has already left more than 20,000 Palestinians dead, is intensifying: What happens the day after? It is at the heart of what appears to be conflicting U.S. and Israeli visions of the future now playing out in the region. The optimistic vision — call it the hope narrative — has been sketched by commentators like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman.
