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Unlike the Ancient Roman Empire which was officially split into Western and Eastern halves, the Western world has not yet been divided into... Read More

Just to state the obvious, we're in a very different period than when my original article and book came out. Democracy at that point was... Read More

Vance warned that shutting down speech destroys democracy. European leaders have apparently taken his statement as an instruction manual. Read More

Trump’s April 2 reciprocal tariff proclamation likely to hit China, Vietnam and other Asian nations as part of a targeted ‘dirty... Read More

Reciprocity may be rhetorically expedient, but it has always been incompatible with tariff protection and tariff revenue goals.   Read More

The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, according to three... Read More

Well, that didn’t take long. Peace negotiations over an end to the war in Ukraine are barely underway, and senior German politicians... Read More

"Thanks to its defense industries," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remarked back in October, "Ukraine is set to become one... Read More

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” to... Read More

The firing of domestic security chief Ronen Bar is the latest battle in the war at home   Read More

Qatari money is like fingerprints that appear when an ultraviolet light turns on. Few expected it to turn up in Israel itself. Read More

Security and defense cooperation between South Korea and the United Kingdom has significant strategic potential to shape the evolving... Read More

As the war between Ukraine and Russia has raged on, cooperation has grown between Moscow and Pyongyang.  Read More

Over the past year, as Israel's ground offensive against Hezbollah ramped up along the Israel-Lebanon border, one disturbing pattern... Read More

Massad Boulos will have to navigate a volatile crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo       Read More

The war between Russia and Ukraine continues unabated. Neither side is in a position to achieve its stated objectives through military force.... Read More

It may be that the US-Russia and US-Ukraine negotiations are going off the rails.   Read More

Perhaps Donald Trump is not quite the chump the Kremlin has taken him for. Trump is “pissed off” with Russia over its... Read More

It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted. In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and... Read More

Just as competition strengthened Taiwan’s economy, it has strengthened its political institutions, even in the face of frequent... Read More

The French people must decide who leads them, not the courts. Read More

The sentencing of far-right politician Marine Le Pen for embezzling EU funds will not only change the 2027 race for the French presidency. It... Read More

Polls show a backlash and a surge behind AfD platform for ending the Ukraine war sooner       Read More

Since President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, more than 100,000 Russians have crossed... Read More

The Abraham Peace Corridor would enhance regional and global security and peace through trade and commerce, all within the framework of the... Read More

Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s... Read More

On March 20, Iranians in Iran and in the diaspora commemorated Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Typically, U.S. administrations have used the... Read More

The European Union and Central Asia must continue moving engagement to the next level, from discussions and statements to actions across a... Read More

Pakistan’s Nukes, An Even Bigger Threat Than Iran?: The United States, Israel, and much of Western Europe have long worked... Read More

Myanmar, already devastated by political turmoil and humanitarian crises, faces further catastrophic consequences from a massive earthquake,... Read More

Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom -- unless you're French, or, in this country, a liberal.   Read More

No great power sustained as dominant a position over its neighboring region as the United States did during most of the twentieth century.... Read More

Trump isn’t retreating from US global leadership but rather pivoting toward a more results-oriented approach   Read More

The US-led coalition to help Ukraine was always more than just a production line of arms deliveries to the Kyiv government.   Read More

After they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price... Read More

When Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu — widely seen as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most formidable political rival... Read More

Is it worth it to the United States to enforce freedom of navigation on the seas?   Read More