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Both in private and in public, Russians are making increasingly explicit references to their atomic arsenal

US allies need little persuasion to shelter under the security umbrella

The odds are stacked against great diplomatic gambits actually happening

The AIIB episode demonstrates that, in the struggle for influence in Asia, Beijing’s strongest card is its growing economic power

The euro has failed to achieve the broader political goal that it was meant to serve 
— that of promoting European unity