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Deradicalizing Post-war Gaza: Why Biden Must Push for a Middle East Marshall Plan

The carnage of the war on both sides of the border is the ultimate wake-up call to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's time to start planning for a day after that would include international mobilization and money, and an end to 'managing' the conflict while sowing the seeds of the next disaster.

John Owen

If You Like ‘Stranger Things,’ Try Following Real-Life Partisan Politics

“We are not in a healthy political era and that’s because there is a new kind of political division”— the “Stranger Things Partisanship.”

Robert Strong

Applying Municipal Law in International Disputes

In a world where municipal law penetrates the international legal system, adjudicators frequently must take account of municipal law to do their job properly. This course looks at how adjudicators carry out this task, how going forward they might manage the boundaries between international and municipal law, and how the choices they make affect the relevance and resilience of the international legal system in the contemporary world.

Paul B. Stephan

'The Ecology of Nations'

Constitutional self-government and authoritarianism are in a worldwide contest—and it is not going well for democracy. Miller Center Faculty Senior Fellow and Taylor Professor of Politics John M. Owen IV engages with experts to discuss open liberal internationalism and what comes next for "The Ecology of Nations," the title of his latest book.

Aynne Kokas, John Owen, Kristen Eichensehr, Eric Edelman

Is America about to abandon Ukraine?

Eric welcomes former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor to Shield of the Republic. They discuss the state of play on the supplemental aid legislation, the causes for the Ukrainian Counter Offensive’s “failure” this summer, the search for a new strategy, General Zaluzhny’s ideas about the changing character of warfare, the stresses and strains of domestic Ukrainian politics, the prospects for negotiations, the consequences of failure to get the assistance money and Plan B if the effort on the Hill fails.

Eric Edelman

The Indo-Pacific versus Pacific Asia

The new concepts of the Indo-Pacific and Pacific Asia (which includes Northeast Asia, Greater China, and Southeast Asia) are each problematic, but with differing complications.

Brantly Womack