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1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | John Haltiwanger |Rishi Iyengar

Situation Report A weekly digest of national security, defense, and cybersecurity news from Foreign Policy reporters John Haltiwanger and Rishi Iyengar. Delivered Thursday.

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Justin Ling

U.S. Foreign Policy Elections In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I would…” Poilievre titled his submission “Building Canada Through Freedom” and filled it with libertarian gusto, saying he would “relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible.” Although he did not win the competition, he was a finalist....

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

Economics United States China In the annals of overestimating one’s trade leverage and then inflicting own-goals, the Confederacy’s 1861 embargo on the exports of its one product—cotton—in the hopes of coercing foreign countries into supporting the nascent nation always held pride of place. Until this spring.

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Ravi Agrawal

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1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Jeremi Suri

Geopolitics Security United States The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics.