This fine and lucid scholarship has the additional benefit of the eye of an experienced practitioner as Zelikow addresses the question of whether U.S. President Woodrow Wilson could have mediated a peace deal in 1916 or 1917 to end World War I before the United States joined the fray. The reader is aware—although the policymakers of the time could not have been—of the difference that an early deal might have made, perhaps sparing the world the later traumas associated with the rise of Bolshevism in Russia and Nazism in Germany.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2021-12-01/road-less-traveled-secret-battle-end-great-war-1916-1917

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This fine and lucid scholarship has the additional benefit of the eye of an experienced practitioner as Zelikow addresses the question of whether U.S. President Woodrow Wilson could have mediated a peace deal in 1916 or 1917 to end World War I before the United States joined the fray. The reader is aware—although the policymakers of the time could not have been—of the difference that an early deal might have made, perhaps sparing the world the later traumas associated with the rise of Bolshevism in Russia and Nazism in Germany.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2021-12-01/road-less-traveled-secret-battle-end-great-war-1916-1917

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This is the year that digital currencies went mainstream. In the span of just three months last spring, China tested its first-ever digital currency in some of its largest cities, hackers breached a major U.S. oil pipeline and successfully demanded a ransom of more than $4 million in Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies surged to a record combined market capitalization of over $2 trillion, and Jerome Powell, the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, warned that cryptocurrencies are 'highly volatile' and 'may carry potential risks to .

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/americas-crypto-currency-conundrum

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