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Policy Brief: Amidst the Ruins of Agreements: Can Arms Control Be Revived?
With New START expired, warhead numbers rising and nuclear threats normalized, the arms control architecture built over five decades has collapsed. It cannot be restored to what it was. The diplomatic machinery has stalled, but the technical infrastructure beneath it—IAEA safeguards and the CTBTO’s monitoring network—still functions. That gap is where progress is possible.

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On the Other Hand: Gender, Race, and the Costs of Ambivalence
Research on decision-making in foreign policy demonstrates that open-mindedness, cognitive complexity, willingness to solicit advice, and careful deliberation generally produce better decision-making and better outcomes. At the same time, recent scholarship in psychology has suggested that perceptions of competence and trustworthiness can be negatively impacted by expressions of ambivalence—holding two opposing views at the same time— in different social contexts, including evaluations of politicians and business leaders.

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Blog - Creative Resistance: What Myanmar’s Revolution Reveals About Democracy
In 1988, a young British journalist named Chris Gunness found a note beneath his pillow in Myanmar. Activists preparing for a nationwide uprising had recognized that he could get their message beyond the country’s borders. What might have appeared to be a chance encounter was the product of careful underground organizing, undertaken by people who risked imprisonment simply to make the outside world aware of what was happening.

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Blog: American Election – The Die is Cast, But the Dangers Are Still There
“The die is cast, and all bets are off.” This well-known idiom from casino games—a rule that should be familiar to Donald Trump, who has also brought it into politics and the United States’ relations with the rest of the world. After all, was it not he who, acting as the planet’s croupier, set the game of tariffs in motion with his “take it or leave it” ultimatum? Alas, it is now he, personally, and his party, who must submit to this very rule because “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (The Bible).

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- November 13, 2026
In 1988, a young British journalist named Chris Gunness found a note beneath his pillow in Myanmar. Activists preparing for a nationwide uprising had recognized that he could get their message beyond the country’s borders. What might have appeared to be a chance encounter was the product of careful underground organizing, undertaken by people who

By Joah McGee
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