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In the early 1990s, even before North Korea had any nuclear bombs, the United States began to realize that it would be the world’s next nuclear...
When imagining how the U.S.-China relationship might devolve into war, experts often cite Taiwan as the most obvious flashpoint. In recent years,...
History, in the hands of a policymaker, can be a dangerous thing. When officials recruit the wrong historical analogy—or misinterpret an apt...
Rebuilding Gaza is one of the greatest city-making tasks in modern history—perhaps all history. Roughly 60 million tons of rubble bestrews an area...
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to...
The cooperation between Israel and the United States during the war with Iran marks the culmination of a long shift in the relationship between the...
When U.S. forces swooped into Caracas in January to seize President Nicolás Maduro, many Venezuelans inside and outside the country rejoiced....
Restoring Balance to a Broken Global Economy
The World Economic Forum at Davos is rarely the site of geopolitical rupture. But this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the...
At a February 2026 gathering to commemorate the revolution that ushered in Iran’s Islamic Republic, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...
On March 1, 2026, the Iranian government made it official. “After a lifetime of struggle,” a state broadcaster declared, “Iranian Supreme Leader...
On April 8, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week cease-fire. But despite two days of negotiations in Islamabad and speculation about a...
The 75th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party in October 2020 was not the festive affair that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted it to be....
The Iran War Has Altered the Gulf’s Balance of Power—and the Kingdom’s Calculus
Why America and China Need ASEAN
In 1969, with the Cultural Revolution raging at home and tensions rising abroad, Chinese leader Mao Zedong instructed four elder military leaders to...
President Donald Trump was meant to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the end of March to stabilize the world’s most consequential...
A Grand Bargain Is Out of Reach, but a Comprehensive Deal Is Possible
The countries that prevail in great-power rivalries are those that adapt. Athens and Sparta and their allies constantly innovated so their navies...
In late 2025, the U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced it had disrupted a Chinese state-sponsored group that had used the...
The Conflict Is a Crucible for Shiite Identity and Politics
On Monday, six weeks into its war with Iran, the United States imposed a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. According to conventional wisdom, the...
On Sunday, voters ousted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s populist right-wing government. In a landslide victory, Peter Magyar’s Tisza, a...
Few issues capture observers’ attention like the rivalry between China and the United States. Analysts scrutinize political trends and profile...
Since the beginning of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a contradictory approach to the war in Ukraine and how it should end. In...
Trump Is Still Underestimating Tehran’s Resolve
For the past 75 years, the United States has pursued a historically anomalous strategy toward alliances. Traditionally, alliances were forged as...
Tehran Needs Positive Incentives, Not Just Pressure
The De-escalatory Logic That Will Shape Negotiations
The De-escalatory Logic That Will Shape Negotiations
Menaced by an aggressive Russia and no longer able to count on the United States for its security, the European Union is scrambling to chart a way...
In nearly six weeks of war with Iran, the United States’ and Israel’s military performance has been unexpectedly effective. Between the start of...
The Peril and Promise of an Economic Boom
Four years ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s authority was at its peak. After 12 years in which he systematically dismantled Hungary’s...
The First Gulf War’s Lessons for What to Do—and Not Do—in Iran
Three years into the country’s catastrophic civil war, Sudan’s patchwork of battlefields has hardened into something that resembles a de facto...
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a two-week cease-fire on Tuesday night has ended, at least temporarily, the fighting between the United...
The U.S.-led talks to end the war in Ukraine have been placed on hold. The Trump administration’s focus on Iran might be the proximate reason, but...
As artificial intelligence increasingly defines economic and strategic competition between the United States and China, the technology also creates...
Wars in Gaza, Iran, and Elsewhere Have Sunk Washington’s Reputation—Maybe for Good
Given that U.S. President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term imposing steep tariffs on European goods, toying with the idea of...
Israel and the United States may have launched the war on Iran. But it is the Gulf Arab states that have borne the brunt of Tehran’s response. Since...
And the Dangerous Allure of Energy Autarky
Lebanon has become a front in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. On March 1, Naim Qassem, the leader of Hezbollah—the Lebanese militia backed and armed...
Immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian leaders pleaded with their American and European partners to...
How America and Israel Can Shape a New Middle East
China has long been dismissed as the world’s factory floor—a country that excels at manufacturing technologies invented elsewhere yet is unable to...
The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has created the largest disruption to global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies in modern history. Just before...
A War’s Unintended Consequences—for Iran, the Middle East, and the Global Order
Who Will Determine the Fate of the Islamic Republic?
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