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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
In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear...
A Belligerent America Is Foiling Putin’s Strategy
For decades, scholars and politicians have marveled at the fact that democracies do not fight one another. “The absence of war between democracies...
How America Can Protect Itself—and the Global Economy
In February, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. Among American commentators, the...
Japan’s long-dormant defense industry is finally waking up. Constrained by a constitution imposed by the Allied military occupation after World War...
Why Xi Keeps Winning the Summitry Game
In his 2026 State of the Union address, U.S. President Donald Trump repeated a familiar refrain celebrating his role in ending the May 2025 conflict...
In spring 2024, Iran directly attacked Israeli territory for the first time, launching more than 300 drones and missiles at its adversary. U.S.,...
The Real Goal Behind China’s “Self-Revolution”
Over the last three weeks, talks between Iran and the United States have stalled. The two countries have managed to preserve their shaky cease-fire....
For decades, U.S. involvement in Libya has oscillated between neglect and fleeting moments of attention and resolve. But so far, the second Trump...
The Consequences of Beijing’s Weapons Buildup
Among U.S. President Donald Trump’s first actions after returning to office in January 2025 was imposing new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico,...
How Critical Minerals Will Scramble Geopolitics
President Donald Trump, who distrusted the transatlantic relationship in his first term, has tried to refashion it in his second. He has exerted...
In early February, according to The New York Times and other outlets, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced U.S. President Donald Trump...
America Is Preparing for the Wrong Kind of Crisis
America Should End the War but Keep Up the Pressure
Why Wealthy Elites Come to Regret Their Bargains With Authoritarians
The country’s new defense strategy envisioned a dramatic shakeup. It prioritized the homeland and repositioned forces that had patrolled distant...
Turkey has tried its best to stay out of the Iran war, studiously maintaining its neutrality. In this effort, it can point to precedent from its own...
The world has entered an era of autopsies and prophecies. According to many scholars and commentators, the order that the United States presided over...
Russia, China, and the Growing North Korea Threat
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....
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