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  • This is the third in a four-part series on U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century, the focus of which will be to explain how America went from being the self-proclaimed “indispensable” leader of the free world in the 1990s to today’s more conflicted, hesitant, and introspective great power.  “I’ve come here to Cairo to

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  • This is the sixth, and penultimate, in a series of articles on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president.  The articles will continue between now and the general election on 5 November 2024. The focus of this series of articles has been on specific foreign policy challenges – China, Russia, the Middle East,

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  • With the shocking assassination attempt of a leading American public figure at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July, the United States joined a growing list of western democracies falling victim to the scourge of political violence.   Just over two years ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a lone gunman

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