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  A virtual roundtable on the provocative founder of FP.

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  James McGann ranks the world’s best think tanks.

• STEVE WALT

  The Trouble with European
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• THE CABLE

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• PHOTO ESSAY

  On Gaza, Children and War

• SMALL WARS

  Our New Partner: What the Four Stars Are Reading

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Transition Purgatory | Fiasco at the Army War College
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