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Wake-Up Research Security

Neil Ashdown | 2025.12.03

Without fundamental cultural change among academics, research security will become a box-ticking exercise for universities.

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Project Atom 2025

Heather Williams, et al. | 2025.12.03

To generate new thinking on the risks of escalation in the Indo-Pacific, the Project on Nuclear Issues invited a group of experts to develop competing strategies for managing escalation with China.

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2026 USMCA Review

Diego Marroquín Bitar, et al. | 2025.12.03

This brief outlines concrete recommendations to ensure the agreement continues to deliver for American workers, strengthen supply chain security, and maintain North America’s position as the most competitive region in the global economy. The commentary puts forward concrete recommendations to deepen cooperation on critical minerals, investment screening, digital trade, and energy integration, translating this vision into actionable policy outcomes.

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The Fulcrums Of Order

Jon B. Alterman, et al. | 2025.12.02

As global power diffuses and multilateralism fractures, a set of rising states increasingly claim the mantle of the “Global South,” reshaping institutions, challenging Western dominance, and forcing the United States to rethink how it engages a rapidly changing world.

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Striving For Seriousness

Ryan C. Berg, et al. | 2025.12.02

Brazil’s quest for “seriousness” reveals a country shaped by exclusion from the post–World War II order it helped build. Its push for UNSC reform, multilateralism, and regional leadership reflects a deeper struggle for recognition and status.

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Strategic Ambition

Leah Hickert | 2025.12.02

Saudi Arabia is redefining its place in a multipolar world, shifting from historical insecurity and dependence on great powers to an ambitious strategy of diversification, self-reliance, and leadership across the Middle East and Global South.

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Strategic Ambiguity

Jeffrey Mankoff and Max Bergmann | 2025.12.02

Turkey’s push for strategic autonomy sees it balancing NATO ties, courting Russia and China, and asserting regional influence, showing how Erdoğan’s Turkey both shapes and is shaped by a rising multipolar world.

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History-Shaped Alliance

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, et al. | 2025.12.02

South Africa’s foreign policy blends liberation-era ties, post-apartheid grievances, and strategic goals. Amid rising U.S. tensions, Pretoria champions multipolarity, sovereignty, and historical justice to shape its global alliances.

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Complications Of Mass

Richard M. Rossow | 2025.12.02

India is reviving old tools in a new global order, leveraging its history, economic rise, and broadening diplomacy to claim leadership of the Global South while navigating intensifying great-power competition.

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Between Two Reefs

Gregory B. Poling and Andreyka Natalegawa | 2025.12.02

Indonesia’s long-held doctrine of “free and active” diplomacy has shaped its journey from anticolonial struggle to emerging middle power. This chapter traces what drives Jakarta’s careful navigation between great-power rivalries.

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