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The memorandum of understanding that the United States and Iran signed in June has fallen apart. The deal was meant to halt fighting, open the Strait...
Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis
Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has set out on a warpath against American cities. His administration has dispatched thousands...
Beijing Wants Trade but Not Responsibility
On April 7, as the deadline approached for U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to the Iranian government to open the Strait of Hormuz or face...
The Department of Defense is in trouble. During U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, media attention has focused on military parades,...
Trump’s Demands Could Derail Progress on Allied Defense
In his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has outlined grand diplomatic ambitions. He has promised to bring peace to Ukraine and Gaza, sought to...
Why a Trade War Can’t Be Avoided
Through much of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, as the United States’ popularity around the world has ebbed and flowed, the country...
Beijing’s Risky Bet Against the West
On the traffic-snarled streets of Hanoi, taxi drivers taking a break between rides watch Chinese microdramas—feature-length stories divided into...
A New Use for Russia’s Old Playbook in Ukraine
How a Deadlocked Conflict Can Pave the Way for Peace
The IMF, the World Bank, and the Debt Crisis That Imperils West Africa
Whenever the Iran war comes to an end, the Islamic Republic is likely to emerge in a stronger position. Should the terms of a June memorandum of...
America and Its Allies Must Pool Their Efforts
In early September 2022, in the no man’s land between the military frontlines of Ukraine and Russia, I had a decision to make: press on under fire,...
The Short-Term Results and the Long-Term Risks of the “Donroe Doctrine”
Every five years, amid the red banners, choreographed pageantry, and lofty speeches of its party congress, the Communist Party of Vietnam releases two...
It’s Not the Drones—It’s Everything Around Them
In recent months, the U.S.-Israeli relationship has been subjected to unprecedented scrutiny from all sides. Forty Democratic senators voted to block...
The Continent Must Overcome Its Russia Predicament
Washington Dismisses NATO’s Value at Its Own Peril
As the United States races to build the infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, it faces a constraint: legitimacy at the local level....
Washington Dismisses NATO’s Value at Its Own Peril
Celebrations of America’s founding and reflections on its ideals often overlook the central role of civil-military relations. This is a mistake. In...
Celebrations of America’s founding and reflections on its ideals often overlook the central role of civil-military relations. This is a mistake. In...
What Thucydides Really Thought About Power
When the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda met in Washington, D.C., in early December 2025, for a ceremony sealing the...
And the Convenient Fiction of Continued Menace
In 2015, as the United States negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran—an agreement Israel was not a party to—we argued...
For decades, American allies in Asia and Europe have relied on U.S. extended nuclear deterrence for their safety. They forswore acquiring their own...
To many in the West, China’s rise is an indisputable fact. Commentators celebrate its success in language not seen since an earlier generation of...
Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous
At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clustered around the center of Eurasia, is challenging a...
The Trump administration boasts that it has upended the United States’ relationship with Africa. In its view, the U.S. government has historically...
Climate change looms in the background of the contest between China and the United States. It is the underappreciated factor that could determine who...
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
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