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When Israelis go to the polls on October 27, much of the world will be rooting for the defeat of the country’s longtime prime minister, Benjamin...
In the days since U.S. President Donald Trump’s highly public falling out with Ukraine and growing rapprochement with Russia, Kyiv’s prospects...
Why the Future of War Can’t Escape the Past
In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of worried European...
In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire. Their...
On October 5, the day after the first round of Brazil’s general elections, the country’s financial markets were euphoric. Brazil is struggling...
On October 8, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group returned to the United States after 320 days at sea. The deployment—a near...
How the Search for Economic Security Will End in Geopolitical Calamity
The war in Iran is far from the first time that U.S. policymakers have failed to appreciate the limits of American power. But the Trump...
In 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s strategic thinking was shaped around several core ideas. It viewed the...
Eric S. Edelman and Franklin C. Miller Reports of the death of nuclear deterrence are greatly exaggerated. Obituaries for nuclear weapons simply...
Nobody is more convinced of the decline of liberalism than liberals themselves. In Western countries, the past decade has seen a veritable avalanche...
The second Trump administration’s National Security Strategy declared that “the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like...
What Trump Gets Right—and Wrong—About Foreign Policy
At a meeting earlier this year, top foreign ministry officials from several European countries were asked who among them still believed that the...
How Battlefield Cooperation Is Binding Together America’s Adversaries
The Battle on the Streets Over the Foundations of the State
The idea that the Middle East is becoming more liberal may sound counterintuitive. Nearly 50 years ago, a revolution in Iran dismantled the...
The Battle on the Streets Over the Foundations of the State
On the morning of August 19, China’s space industry crossed a major threshold. Shortly after the Chinese aerospace company LandSpace launched a...
How a True “Energy Cease-Fire” Can Curb Putin
For months, Iran’s resilience in its war with two of the world’s most capable militaries has perplexed many politicians and confounded public...
What Will Survive When the Boom Ends
The fastest track and field athlete is no longer the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. In fact, it is not a person at all: it is the Chinese humanoid...
Why Disengagement Is Not the Answer
When it comes to Iran, the Trump administration has a decidedly dismal record. It failed to wear down the Islamic Republic with months of intense...
The Strategic Costs of Antagonizing Canada and Mexico
A year after the Trump administration negotiated an agreement to end the war in Gaza, Palestinians are still waiting for the “day after” to...
America Should Spy On Foreign Companies to Help Its Own
Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of African leaders that the United States would be “shifting from aid to trade.” Washington...
And the West Has Done Far Too Little to Deter It
On June 3, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Congress that the fighting that had raged for three years in Sudan was now a “proxy...
The Dangerous Idea Driving Today’s Wars of Choice
In April and May, hundreds of users of the social media platform Bluesky discovered that their accounts had been hijacked and used to spread content...
Demographic Decline, Political Paralysis, and the Fate of Great Powers
The Brazilian presidential election, which kicks off with a first round of voting on October 4, gives citizens a choice between radically different...
The Brazilian presidential election, which kicks off with a first round of voting on October 4, gives citizens a choice between radically different...
Why a New Majority—Even in Gaza—Supports Compromise With Israel
Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...
Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...
Tehran’s Strategy to Drive America Out of the Middle East
What Kyiv Needs to Survive
When will the war in Iran end? American officials claim that the answer is soon. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the [November]...
Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside...
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their...
What Kyiv Needs to Survive
America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
Japan, a country constitutionally bound to pacifism since World War II, is investing in its defense and contributing to regional security in ways that...
America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...