David Scheffer grew up in Oklahoma, always interested in the world far outside his home. His curiosity and “fill the gap” ethos led him to forge several war crimes tribunals to seek justice for global ...

Analysts say the European Commission president has increasingly stepped into foreign-policy areas reserved for others under EU treaties, from the US-Israel attack on Iran to Ukraine, Gaza, and US ...

More and more, governments have seen a need to compel changes in corporate behavior to achieve their foreign policy aims—in effect, to dabble in state capitalism. That shift has been in the works for ...

By Liz Lee and Xiuhao Chen BEIJING, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S.-China dialogue is vital to preventing globally damaging ...

America is drowning in debt. It has expanded over years and even decades, but President Trump and his allies in Congress have piled on a giant new load. In fiscal year 2025, the United States spent ...

Roughly 2,500 years of catastrophic warfare are not enough to teach Steven Miller and other Trump administration leaders.

Trade disruptions, wars, aid retrenchment, and geopolitical realignment have forced governments and investors to reassess risk. Africa is often portrayed as the weakest link—too dependent on external ...

Amid the military buildup, Trump's broader objectives in Iran remain something of a mystery.

With his large-scale attack on Iran, Donald Trump has seized a legacy-defining moment to demonstrate his readiness to exercise raw U.S. military power. But in doing so, he is also taking the biggest ...

Perspective: Iran war has exposed the Russia-China axis as a loose grouping of states unable to act together against U.S.

An analysis of Britain’s decline as a military power and its fading role on the global stage.

The Trump administration’s attack on Iran was hardly a surprise. Since January, the military buildup around Iran has telegraphed that an attack was imminent. Yet despite being long foreseen, the ...