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1. Losing the War of the Future: How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage. --Paul Scharre
2. The Mirage of China’s Military Edge: Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive. --Dennis Blair
3. The Next Russia Threat: Moscow’s Military Power After Ukraine. --Michael Kofman
4. The Middle East Power Paradox: How the Iran War Will Transform America’s Military Role. --Dana Stroul
5. The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence: And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability. --Rose Gottemoeller
6. The Broken Nuclear Umbrella: What Comes After Extended Deterrence. --Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press
7. The Afghanistan Reckoning: Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting. --Carter Malkasian
8. Iran’s New Grand Strategy: How a Remade Islamic Republic Will Reshape the Middle East. --Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr
9. Heartland vs. Rimland: The Battle Lines in the War for the Next Global Order. --Michael Beckley and Hal Brands
10. The Fault Lines in China’s Power: America Must Build—and Use—Leverage Against Beijing. --Ely Ratner and Nick Danby
11. Why “China First” Will Fail: The Limits and Lessons of a Transactional Foreign Policy. --Patricia M. Kim
12. How to Survive the AI Shock: A Policy Playbook to Avert Political Crisis. --James A. Davidson and Matthew J. Slaughter
13. Who Is China? Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis. --Ian Johnson
14. A Democracy Safe for the World: How to Fix a Broken System. --Sheri Berman
15. Why America Gets Africa Wrong: U.S. Policy Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better. --Zachariah Mampilly
16. True North? Debating How to Deal With Pyongyang. --Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit; Lee Shin-wha; Nicholas Eberstadt, Robert Joseph, and David Maxwell; Victor Cha
17. The German Question: Should Europe Fear Berlin?. --Hanns W. Maull; Liana Fix