If that successor is a Democrat, the instinct may be to revive the alliance framework that existed during the Cold War. But that would be the wrong approach. The world has changed since Washington ...

It is easy to see why Trump would believe that the warnings about another attack on Iran are overwrought and that he can repeat his formula of decisive action and a clean exit. But this time is ...

And the United States’ vested interest in its allies’ security offered assurance to Japan and other countries that they would be protected if conflict came to their shores. National security leaders ...

It is easy to see why Trump would believe that the warnings about another attack on Iran are overwrought and that he can repeat his formula of decisive action and a clean exit. But this time is ...

In fact, given the economy’s high dependence on oil revenue, some kind of recovery is all but certain. U.S. President Donald Trump has allowed Venezuela to begin selling its oil in global markets. As ...

From Washington to Beijing and Moscow to New Delhi, a consensus is emerging that the world has entered a multipolar era. Political leaders, diplomats, and analysts routinely declare that unrivaled ...

Amid a sea of disruptions—territorial threats against Denmark, missed alliance meetings by senior U.S. diplomats, and planned personnel reductions at NATO installations—the Trump administration’s ...

Over the past two decades, China has transformed from a strategically weak energy power, dependent on imports of oil and gas, into the world leader in clean energy. Today, China produces the most wind ...

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and ...

The war in Ukraine is, at once, a past and future conflict. On the one hand, Russia’s invasion resembles World War I, with static frontlines, trenches, and vast areas of no mans ...

The sad truth is that the West does not seem willing to listen to the global South. The countries of the global South do not all share the dominant Western perspectives about world order. Stubb ...

As a result, NATO allies have sent Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars in military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to prevent it from losing the war and collapsing. The Europeans have ...