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Over the past decade or two, concerns about democracy’s future have moved to the center of political debate. In many long-established democracies...
Europeans have been humiliated, disparaged, and sidelined since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025. Indeed, it is no exaggeration...
Choi Jong Kun and Joel S. Wit In “North Korea as It Is” (May/June 2026), Victor Cha recasts three decades of diplomacy as a strategic failure and...
On June 22, 2025, fiber-optic first-person-view drones operated by the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a Tuareg rebel group, slammed into a convoy of...
Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting
Moscow’s Military Power After Ukraine
The European Union today faces a set of external challenges that threaten its very existence. In December 2025, Pentagon officials told European...
Early last summer, buried deep in an obscure budget document, the Trump administration effectively pronounced dead the primary government program for...
The Cost of Trump’s Equivocation
Plastic is, quite literally, everywhere. We see it scattered across roads and piled up in heaps in our cities and towns. It is in consumer products,...
Equilibrium With Iran Is the Best America Can Do
Next year, France could elect its first far-right leader since 1944. Campaigning for the elections, which are scheduled for next April, is already...
China is increasingly embracing the mantle that comes with being a global superpower. Its rise is forcing the rest of the world to assess its...
Tehran Is Poised to Overplay Its Hand
Trump’s Most Consequential Foreign Policy Mistake
China and Russia Are Harvesting Encrypted Secrets—and Getting Closer to Cracking Them
Every few months, a new round of obituaries for NATO arrives. Commentators declare the alliance finished, analysts speak of irreparable rifts, and...
Washington Will Come to Regret Its Stalemate With Beijing
For years, Hungary has been a surprising front in the global battle between authoritarianism and democracy. It attracted outsize attention for a...
Washington Will Come to Regret Its Stalemate With Beijing
China is suffering from enormous waste. For decades, government officials have built grand, showy projects that prioritize size and appearance over...
When President Donald Trump returned from a trip to the Gulf in May 2025, he trumpeted $2.2 trillion in bilateral deals the United States had signed...
How China’s Currency Manipulation Is Warping the World Economy
At this year’s Munich Security Conference, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed Europe’s “long tradition in freedom of...
For two and a half decades, whenever the Turkish government had a falling out with the United States and Europe, analysts frantically began worrying...
Iran’s shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States’ failure to restore the free flow of maritime traffic, has put a spotlight on...
America Depends on It—and Can Restore It
“Help is on its way,” U.S. President Donald Trump promised in January, as Iranians took to the streets and were killed by the thousands by...
What American Military Force Can and Cannot Do
On the morning of April 8, a squadron of jet fighters struck oil refineries on Iran’s Lavan Island. The attacks came just before the cease-fire that...
The Trump administration’s motivations for going to war in Iran remain in question. But amid all the debates over the state of the Iranian nuclear...
Beijing’s Blindspots Hinder Real Reform
Eighteen months into his second U.S. presidential term, it may appear that Donald Trump has permanently altered his country’s relationships with its...
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...
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