Why America Can Project Power With Little Constraint—and Its Rivals Cannot; Xi the Destroyer; The Predatory Hegemon
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There Is Only One Sphere of Influence

Why America Can Project Power With Little Constraint—and Its Rivals Cannot

 By Michael Beckley

 

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Xi the Destroyer

The Latest Military Purge Signals China’s Leader Is Entering a New Era

By Jonathan A. Czin and John Culver

 
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The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power

By Stephen M. Walt

 

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The Limits of Russian Power

Why Putin Isn’t Thriving in Trump’s Anarchic World

By Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte