The era of treating the Americas as a geopolitical afterthought is over. FP Analytics’ latest synthesis report, produced with support from @GordonInstitute, examines why the Western Hemisphere has become a focal point of strategic competition:

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The Board of Peace has been revealed to be so flawed as to be completely unworkable, writes Anchal Vohra.

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Whenever the shift happened, we are clearly in a post-free trade era where economic nationalism is in vogue, Bob Davis writes. Out is economic efficiency; in is economic security.

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The latest concessions likely don’t represent a softening of the military’s hard line but instead a belief that the worst of its opposition is already behind it, writes Andrew Nachemson.

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Europe has embarked on three distinctive strategies to resist pressure from Russia, China, and Turkey: containment, consolidation, and co-optation.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, coupled with the acute energy crisis caused by his war against Iran and U.S. government pressure to force Singapore into even closer alignment, have severely frustrated Singaporean leaders.

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Economic strategists are pitching tougher policies for an anxious world.

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Despite constant attacks that inflict nonstop hardship on Ukrainians, Putin has failed to break their will, writes Seth Stodder.

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Prisoner releases mostly reflect the regime’s growing confidence five years after seizing power in a coup, Andrew Nachemson writes.

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“Land,” by far Maggie O’Farrell’s most ambitious work, spans continents and millenia, all while remaining deeply rooted in one plot of earth on an unnamed Irish peninsula, FP’s Chloe Hadavas writes.

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While Europe has been buffeted by a host of external rivals, it has also shown a remarkable capacity to adapt, writes Dimitar Bechev.

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Herta Müller’s memoir provides a visceral and more complete depiction of life under tyranny, and shows how art can serve as a means of both survival and commemoration, writes Laura Mills.

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Acting like a madman can make coercion more plausible, but it also raises the costs of conflict resolution.