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Over the past two decades, political polarization has steadily eroded the continuity and stability of U.S. foreign policy.

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Polarization represents not just an internal challenge but a structural constraint with profound implications for American foreign policy, particularly toward Russia.

The U.S.-Russian agenda has shrunk to a single issue—avoiding a military clash, writes Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Relations in the short term are likely to get worse before ...

The National Interest’s contributing editor Michael Lind posits that Cold War II has its roots in the American bid for global hegemony. Rather than try and fail to achieve this hegemony, the U.S.

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