Publications

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  Reassessing U.S.-Türkiye Relations: The View from Ankara

  At the recent NATO Summit in Ankara, President Trump announced a new opening in U.S.-Turkish ties, with an end to the long-standing sanctions on defense sales. In the latest report from the Center for the National Interest’s Regional Perspectives series, Dr. Hasan Mesut Önder asserts that this is only the start of a process to

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  The Case for Deeper U.S. Engagement with Afghanistan

  In the nearly five years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban, America has limited its engagement with the Afghan regime to securing the release of detainees and pursuing modest counter-terrorism cooperation. Kuchins proposes a pragmatic, step-by-step approach to interacting with officials in Kabul that could—in parallel with substantive collaboration

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  Paul Saunders Writes on Economic Implications of the Iran War

  In his contribution to the Stimson Center‘s “Reimagining US Grand Strategy” series, Center for the National Interest President Paul Saunders argues that America’s reflexive focus on gasoline prices badly understates what’s at stake in the Persian Gulf. He takes measure of the global energy system, and warns that an indefinite “no-war, no-peace” standoff with a

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  Regional Perspectives | Nechirvan Barzani and the New Kurdish Diplomacy

  The Center for the National Interest is pleased to share its first paper in a new series, Regional Perspectives. The series will aim to provide a venue for guest authors to present their views of what the world looks like from outside America’s borders. In the paper, “Nechirvan Barzani and the New Kurdish Diplomacy,” Dr.

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  Reality Always Wins | Who Russians Really Want in Charge

  In his latest Reality Always Wins post, Paul Saunders digs into a striking recent finding: 55% of economically-active Russians say they’d prefer to be governed by an AI algorithm than by their current corrupt officials. Saunders reads the result less as enthusiasm for machine rule than as a quiet protest vote against Russia’s political system—a

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