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Eighteen months into his second U.S. presidential term, it may appear that Donald Trump has permanently altered his country’s relationships with its...
At the outset of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in February 2026, the Islamic Republic appeared battered and weakened. Large-scale bombing had destroyed...
Eighteen months into his second U.S. presidential term, it may appear that Donald Trump has permanently altered his country’s relationships with its...
The Pentagon Needs Both Quantity and Quality to Win Modern Conflicts
Most analyses of how to end the war in Ukraine focus on the intentions of one man: Russian President Vladimir Putin. This assumes that the person who...
Over the past week, the status of the conflict in Lebanon has careered wildly between escalation and attempts at statecraft. On May 30, Israeli and...
Tehran’s New Strategic Calculus
Why a Cease-Fire Is Now a Real Possibility
On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar...
Thousands of educated workers leave their home countries every day for more developed and stable economies. In turn, these emigrants deplete their...
On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar...
Why a Cease-Fire Is Now a Real Possibility
A Deal With Washington Is the Island’s Best Hope
A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI...
A Deal With Washington Is the Island’s Best Hope
Three months after joint U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran started a war in the Middle East, the United States remains stuck in strategic limbo, with no...
Nuclear Guarantees Cannot Replace U.S. Forces in Europe
The United States’ security ties with Europe are fraying. Even before the war in Iran returned the Middle East to the front of policymakers’...
In Trying to Avoid a Quagmire, America Found a Dead End
A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the...
America and China Cannot Dominate or Exclude Each Other
Over the last ten years, Japan has shed its pacifist identity. After promising, post–World War II, to maintain only a tiny military, Tokyo is now...
Not Choosing Is Not an Option
The Coming Contest for Asia’s Waterways
What Hormuz Unleashed
War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations
On February 22, cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a hideout in the town of Tapalpa, a well-known tourist...
Similar Wars End in Similar Ways
In the months after Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, in May 2025, he kept a relatively low profile. He fulfilled prescheduled trips to Turkey and...
In the months after Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, in May 2025, he kept a relatively low profile. He fulfilled prescheduled trips to Turkey and...
The Dawn of a Strange New European Consensus
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has put the Gulf states in an impossible position. The American forces they host have become the main reason their...
Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office last January, analysts have debated whether he is pursuing a sphere of influence strategy—an approach...
The Department of Justice’s recent decision to drop its investigation of current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Trump...
Trump’s Overreach Has Finally Forged Continental Unity
In his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has flipped the script on trade policy, slapping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike to punish...
Why Turbulence Will Make Beijing More Assertive
Nigeria’s security challenges are immense. According to one estimate, the country recorded nearly 12,000 conflict-related deaths in 2025—a toll...
This week’s long-awaited summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may be among the most consequential encounters...
How Trump and Xi Could Cement Beijing’s Advantage for Years to Come
President Donald Trump’s approach to the drug war has been characteristically brazen. Since September, spectacular boat bombings by American forces...
Since returning to the White House in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has bullied, scolded, and coerced countries the world...
Washington Has More Demands—and Tehran Has More Leverage
How the Summit Could Change the Course of U.S.-China Competition
For the Middle East, the war in Iran has been another tough lesson in how divisions and competition can yield brutal conflict. But for most of the...
How the Summit Could Change the Course of U.S.-China Competition
Last May, U.S. President Donald Trump paid a triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the course of a four-day...
Last May, U.S. President Donald Trump paid a triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the course of a four-day...
Last May, U.S. President Donald Trump paid a triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the course of a four-day...
Beijing Is Playing a Long Game on Taiwan
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