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From the Hill:

The GOP is becoming an isolationist party. It is no longer the party that embraces the bold foreign policy of��Ronald Reagan��or the Bushes. By more than two to one, Republicans endorse��the view that��“We should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home.” Only 30 percent of Republicans believe “It is best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs.”

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From the Washington Post:

Just as he knew that he could not win last fall in centrist Virginia as a Trump acolyte, Youngkin knows he has no shot in today’s Republican Party nationally if he’s seen as a squishy fence straddler.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From the National Review:

Troy Senik’s new biography of Cleveland,��A Man of Iron, is a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable journey through the life and career of the ox-like man who became the only U.S. president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.��

—Colin Dueck

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From the Washington Post:

In Virginia’s new swingable 7th District, Spanberger has little to lose, potentially much to gain, from attacking Pelosi.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Perhaps international treaties would help, possibly lessening the potential for accidental wars caused by unintentional slip-ups in technology. In the meantime, my students and I continue to be anxious, always hoping that the next ball coming out of the urn will be a white one.

—Stephen Ruth

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From the Syndication Bureau:

Those hopes were dashed when Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late September, accusing the West of��nuclear��hypocrisy.

—Ellen Laipson

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From Bloomberg Law:

Rethinking the Weinstein Clause 5 Years Post-#MeToo

The original Weinstein clause aimed to mitigate these risks, but it fell short by failing to understand and address the subtle��and complex dynamics that can allow sexual misconduct to proliferate in silence, as it did at the Weinstein Company.

—Ally Coll, et. al

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From Wavell Room (UK):

To be sure, there may be real operational limitations on the utility of tactical nuclear weapons for Russia. There are risks of fall-out that could blow back on actual Russian territory or land Moscow has claimed via illegal annexation. There may not be optimal targets at hand in terms of large concentrations of Ukrainian forces. Still, if the hammer is the only functional tool, it may not matter whether the problem is a nail or not; Russia may simply use what works.��

—PhD Student Mike Sweeney

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From the Hill:

Budget process reforms most likely to succeed would do so by explicitly and saliently reminding policymakers of scarcity and the need to include both expected benefits and expected costs in budget decisions.��

—Marvin Phaup

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From Homeland Security Today:

Similar attacks are likely to continue, but the question remains: Why is ISIS-K predominantly targeting Shia mosques in Afghanistan? The answer is complex and multifaceted.��

—Mahmut Cengiz

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From the National Interest:

Despite the lofty praise, however, the Abraham Accords neither advance peace nor U.S. interests in the Middle East. Instead, they represent the formalization of a coercive political, economic, and security order designed to maintain the status quo in the region.

—PhD Candidate Jon Hoffman

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From DAWN:

A man of firm convictions rooted in the ideology of the left, compromise and finding a middle ground to be part of power politics held no appeal for him. As his US-based cousin Ahmer Mustikhan told me: “Yousuf had a contempt for wealth”, and was never lured by money and power.

—MPP Student Mushtaq Rajpar

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From the Hill:

So why take this economic risk? It may be that the Saudis and the Emiratis fear what they consider would be an even greater geopolitical risk for them: the prospect of Russia losing its war in Ukraine.

—Mark N. Katz

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From the Hill:

Remember that intelligence is estimative, not evidentiary.�� No one single report or piece of analysis is going tell you everything you need to know about a situation.��

—Ronald Marks

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From the Hill:

Religious commitment has a lot to do with the takeover of the Republican Party by the radical right. What drives the radical right is resentment of the educated elite, who today tend to be Democrats — and resolutely secular.

—Bill Schneider

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From Eurasia Review:

Thus, Tehran is expanding its relations with Moscow, whereas there is no true indication of Tehran’s willingness to improve relations with Kyiv.

—Umud Shokri

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From NCT Magazine:

Controlling Novichok Nerve Agents After the Skirpal and Navalny Incidents

Since Novichok nerve agents came to public attention following a high-profile assassination attempt in 2018, the international chemical weapons nonproliferation regime has taken important, but incomplete, steps to reduce the risk of these chemical weapons proliferating.

—Gregory Koblentz, et al.

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From La República:

Don't the congressmen behind the attempts to remove Castillo realize their own weakness? Congress has an even lower approval rating; in recent months it has fluctuated between 8 and 15% according to national surveys.

—Jo-Marie Burt