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Osama Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success | Foreign Affairs
WEBAug 13, 2021 · Play. Download Article. On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osama bin Laden and the other men who planned it, however, the assault was no mere act of terrorism. To them, it represented something far grander: the opening salvo of a …
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How Hegemony Ends: The Unraveling of American Power
WEBJun 9, 2020 · Takaki Yajima / Reuters. At the United Nations, for example, the two countries routinely consult on votes and initiatives. As permanent members of the UN Security Council, they have coordinated their opposition to criticize Western interventions and calls for regime change; they have vetoed Western-sponsored proposals on Syria and efforts …
The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis | Foreign Affairs
WEBAug 13, 2018 · A Styrofoam bull at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, September 2008. “September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.”. Ben Bernanke, then the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made this remarkable claim in November 2009, just one year after the meltdown.
Putin Is Going to Lose His War in Ukraine | Foreign Affairs
WEBMay 25, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin could hardly have used his May 9 Victory Day address, an annual holiday marking the Nazis’ surrender to the Soviets, to declare victory in his military campaign against Ukraine. Neither did he use the occasion to declare a general mobilization, as some analysts had predicted. Instead, speaking from a …
The New Cold War: America, China, and the Echoes of History
WEBOct 19, 2021 · The pattern emerges clearly from the two costliest civil wars of the nineteenth century. The Taiping Rebellion of 1850–64 took some 20 million Chinese lives, about five percent of the population. The American Civil War of 1861–65 killed 750,000 combatants, 2.5 percent of a much less crowded country.
Like It Or Not, America Is Still A Superpower - Foreign Affairs
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · The United States is “lazily playing with a fraction of her immeasurable strength”—so the British historian Arnold Toynbee commented somewhat ruefully in the early 1930s. At the time, U.S. defense spending was between two and three percent of GDP. Today, it is a little over three percent.