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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on TV this week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s... Read More

Regardless of its current hostile rhetoric, the Islamic Republic will likely reach a settlement with the US and Israel. Read More

All the noise around Iran’s supposed stranglehold on oil supplies transiting through the Strait of Hormuz is missing the point.   Read More

U.S. rewards for Lebanon should follow, rather than precede, Hezbollah’s disarmament.   Read More

When the former leftist guerrilla Gustavo Petro ran for president of Colombia in 2022, a common refrain could be heard among his critics. If... Read More

When Fox News asked President Trump last month if the United States was looking to update the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he was... Read More

In the middle of Germany lies a state that many people outside the country have never heard of: Saxony-Anhalt. Picture a conservative and... Read More

A week ago, U.S. officials say President Trump was on the verge of ordering a return to major combat operations against Iran.  Read More

This week, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei reshuffled the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus as his country... Read More

There has been no shortage of complaints about Chinese overcapacity in recent years. Beijing’s commitment to driving exports and... Read More

Abolishing the veto will not create a common strategic interest where none exists. It will merely allow the majority to impose on individual... Read More

From one end of their 800-mile-long, crocodile-shaped Caribbean island to the other, Cubans are suffering through hot, sleepless nights and... Read More

When I served as the chief U.S. negotiator for the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), I learned that the most durable partnerships are... Read More

Suspense over whether Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and give up its enriched uranium and nuclear weapons programs expired on Tuesday... Read More

The next flashpoint in the Middle East is not the Strait of Hormuz–it’s the Syria-Iraq border.  Read More

The “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement” is not a rejection of US partnership but rather a safeguard against its downsides.   Read More

When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed their joint defense agreement in Mecca on August 7, the alliance’s first test was... Read More

The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of memorable dates. The... Read More

On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize the government of Somaliland. For a statelet aiming for... Read More

A Media rights organization has quietly removed at least eight individuals from its roster of media workers killed while doing journalistic... Read More

Borders between countries can be simple lines in the sand or convoluted exercises in realpolitik, skirting seas, islands, fields and even... Read More

The U.S. and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks on shipping on Tuesday as prospects for ending the Iran war appeared to... Read More

Iran has delivered a sweeping set of demands that the United States must meet before the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened to maritime... Read More

Donald Trump campaigned for a second U.S. presidential term on a promise to end wars, not start them. And for the first year after his... Read More

The administration has given some indication all week that they are close to yet another deal. This is the seventh or eighth time they said a... Read More

akistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, rather excitedly proclaimed a new defense agreement – the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement... Read More

To hear President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio discuss Venezuela one would almost think that they were talking about two... Read More

Europe’s migration debate is still trapped between more and less. The next reform should link discretionary migration policy to... Read More

During Henry’s Kissinger’s famous “Year of Europe” speech in 1973, the then Assistant for National Security affairs... Read More

It’s not that European elites embrace the uninvited illegal aliens’ values. They just despise their own. A civilization ashamed... Read More

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s weekend trip to Serbia triggered reverberations in the Balkans long after the Ukrainian president jetted back to... Read More

What a strange summer this has turned out to be: no rain and no politics. As we enter what the broadcast media are calling the fifth... Read More

Iran’s proxy group the Houthis have launched fresh missile attacks on Yemeni ports in the Red Sea as their conflict with Saudi Arabia... Read More

Neighbors are busy rehabilitating the diplomatic standing of Myanmar’s junta-chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing just as his regime... Read More

The China shock has arrived in Africa, and America’s economic relationship with the world’s fastest-growing continent is at... Read More

The US has no plan for dealing with the complex rivalries that threaten its strategy in the region   Read More

Dune reminds us that the greatest leverage sometimes belongs not to the strongest army but to the actor capable of threatening the system... Read More

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey aren’t going to go to war for each other. But they do want to show the US and Iran that they are... Read More

The curious, on-again-off-again US-Iran war of 2026 is a remarkable geopolitical outcome. For all its hard power, the US has been unable to... Read More

When I was an American diplomat in Damascus 30 years ago, I spent a lot of time with Syrian intellectuals. Read More

Prime Minister Takaichi should ignore the naysayers and continue implementing Shinzo Abe’s vision for a supercharged Japan.   Read More

A U.S.–Japan joint effort to support the currency won’t undo decades of distorted bond prices and mounting debt.   Read More