Similar Wars End in Similar Ways; Spheres by Default; The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace
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Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea

Similar Wars End in Similar Ways

 By Gideon Rose

 

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Spheres by Default

How U.S. Concessions Are Quietly Becoming Chinese Influence

By Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper

 
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The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace

War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations

By Thant Myint-U

 

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