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Regime realism and Chinese grand strategy
Hal Brands | American Enterprise Institute China’s behavior is difficult to understand solely, or even primarily, through a “realist” lens. A paradigm of regime realism — one that combines an understanding of power and anarchy with an appreciation of ideology and the nature of a country’s government — offers greater insight. 
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Rare-Earth Elements: A National Security Crisis
By William A. Saxton, RealClearDefense: ““The Middle East has the oil, but China has the rare earths,” spoken by Deng Xiaoping, Supreme Leader of China, in 1992. What did he mean and what did he know that we didn’t?"
America’s Winning Culture:
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China is challenging America’s conception of what values an international order should embody. But China’s behavior is difficult to understand solely through a “realist” lens. In an AEI report, Hal Brands explains that a paradigm of regime realism — one that combines an understanding of power and anarchy with an appreciation of ideology and governance — offers greater insight. The US-China contest is one for the long haul. Read the full report here.
How True Love Won the Day With Conrad Black
The Memoir of Barbara Amiel, Who Confounded the Gossips in a Story for Our Time By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun | October 13, 2020 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-true-love-won-the-day-with-conrad-black/91296/ One of the things that made me look forward to reading Barbara Amiel's new memoir is something she said shortly before her husband, Conrad Black, departed for prison. It was at a dinner for him at the Breakers in Palm Beach, where ten or so editors had gathered to buoy his spirits. At some point during the evening, I leaned over to Barbara and asked whether she was going to be okay. Continue Reading |
Author of "The True Believer: Thoughts on the nature of Mass Movements."
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