Introducing The Hamiltonian

Gabriel Scheinmann

The United States is in the early stages of an unsettled era, one in which its gains and global standing of the last seventy-five years are being challenged from all directions … For those of us in Washington, the Afghanistan debate served as a stark reminder that nowhere is this great debate less settled than on college campuses. For young people, the contest over America’s role in the world is not a new phenomenon, but a baseline….

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Strengthening U.S. Partnerships and Countering Chinese Influence in Latin America

The growing influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Latin America is threatening U.S. security. In the coming decade, Chinese port construction...

Northern Frights: The Renewed Risk of Russo-Sino Cooperation in the Arctic

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Standoff with the Dragon: The Danger Zone Strategy

Review of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley (New York, NY: Norton and Company, 2022). America must...

The New Century of National Interest

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Climate Finance and Development Policy as Competitive Tools

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Supplying the Arsenal of Democracy

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A Hamiltonian Industrial Policy

The question of government intervention in the economy and business has long occupied American economists, businessmen, and lawmakers. Does the government have a duty...

The United States Should Fight for a Digital “Open Door”

According to the world’s great powers, sovereignty – the right to impose law and make war and peace – remains the exclusive privilege of...

Misplaced Application of Offensive Realism in U.S. Grand Strategy

The term restrainer calls to mind many different images: on one hand, a group of anti-war activists disillusioned by American failures in Iraq and...