Author: Jordan Henry
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Center’s Iran Discussion Featured in New York Post
Can the Trump administration do in Iran what it pulled off in Venezuela last month? Daniel McCarthy, the editor of Modern Age, wrote about the Center’s recent discussion with Sina Azodi and Alex Vatanka for the New York Post. Read it here.
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February 8, 2026: Assassination in Moscow
February 8, 2026: Assassination in Moscow Last week’s targeted shooting of General Vladimir Alexeyev in the outskirts of Moscow has stripped the Russian military of one of its most competent strategists. The assassination attempt occurred against the backdrop of growing paranoia reminiscent of the Stalin era, exemplified in a grim new state documentary warning how
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Can the U.S. Build Nuclear Again? (w/ Kenneth Luongo)
Can the U.S. Build Nuclear Again? (w/ Kenneth Luongo) America is seeing a renewed push to expand nuclear energy, driven by rising electricity demand, data centers, and growing geopolitical competition. But building new reactors is slow, expensive, and risky, raising hard questions about financing, siting, and political will. Can the United States realistically catch up
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February 1, 2026: Holy War in Ukraine
February 1, 2026: Holy War in Ukraine Despite suffering over 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine—eclipsing Soviet losses in the Afghan conflict by orders of magnitude—Russian society remains strikingly silent compared to the civil strife that once challenged the Kremlin’s authority in the 1980s. This domestic compliance rests, in part, on Russian state media’s framing of
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The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconstruction in the Trump Era
In our latest Policy Focus, “The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconciliation in the Trump Era,” CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe examines the foreign policy challenges that lie ahead. The White House would prefer to avoid anything that remotely resembles the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has dismantled a large part
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