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Non-commercials in the futures market reduced the net long euro position for the second consecutive week through April 26. Click here to know more...

Russia's war on Ukraine has created a crisis on top of a crisis, says associate editor Vikram Khanna in his latest commentary. https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/russias-war-is-feeding-a-hunger-cr… . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Some of the most consequential changes come upon us silently, almost without notice. The world is in the midst of one right now: Our doctrines of nuclear deterrence are obsolete and in desperate need of an update. Some history: One of the most famous early concepts in deterrence theory was the doctrine of “mutual assured destruction,” or MAD. Its logic was laid out by Thomas Schelling (a former doctoral adviser of mine), who won a Nobel Prize in economics in large part for his ideas on nucle...

Deterrence is a tenuous concept, in need of reinvention by each generation.

If a nuclear strike killed 10,000 or 20,000 innocent Ukrainians, how would the United States or NATO respond?

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Some of the most consequential changes come upon us silently, almost without notice. The world is in the midst of one right now: Our doctrines of nuclear deterrence are obsolete and in desperate need of an update.

China’s growing nuclear arsenal threatens deterrence.

In late June 2021, satellite images revealed that China was building 120 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos on the edge of the Gobi Deser...

We asked Yale SOM’s Barry Nalebuff, an expert on game theory and negotiation, what it will take to find common ground and bring the war in Ukraine to an end.