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Fletcher’s Monica Duffy Tofts explores the long history of armed conflict over homeland territories, discussing successful resolutions in Northern Ireland and the Alsace-Lorraine region and why “straightforward solutions” to reconciliation between Israel and Palestine may be challenging to achieve. 

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted at length about why doing business with China is harder than ever. A link to the October 2022 New York Times’ review of Miller’s Chip War is included.

TUSM’s Barry Levy comments on how the indirect health impacts of war lead to more illness and death than the weapons of war. Levy is the author of From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal co-authors this opinion piece on actions that President Biden can take to stop the "genocide in the making" in Sudan.

Fletcher Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher examines how the United States and China could pioneer a new approach to financing green development in the global South as part of climate change cooperation.

Fletcher’s David C. Logan says that President Xi Jinping’s removal of the top commanders of China’s Rocket Force, which controls all land-based ballistic missiles, might impact the country’s nuclear weapons modernization efforts.

As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima approaches, Fletcher’s Tara Sonenshine discusses the state of nuclear arms diplomacy and efforts to reduce current nuclear stockpiles and curb new weapons development. 

Fletcher’s Chris Miller says he is "surprised by the success" of the United States’ coalition of countries enacting semiconductor export restrictions aimed at China. Miller is quoted from a recent American Enterprise Institute event.

Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin comments on the significance of Russia’s introduction of new state-owned military companies, which he says “are the next probable episode of the fragmentation of military power typical for many authoritarian regimes.”