Officials have pursued these highly visible projects to impress their superiors and showcase their achievements, but in doing so they often take away resources from less glamorous but more effective ...

Most of these bases were home to Russian strategic heavy bombers—aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Using Russia’s mobile phone network, Ukrainian operatives remotely launched the drones, ...

As the Group of Seven meets in Évian, France, beginning June 15, French President Emmanuel Macron has pushed to bring about a broad recognition that rising trade imbalances are a global economic ...

When President Donald Trump returned from a trip to the Gulf in May 2025, he trumpeted $2.2 trillion in bilateral deals the United States had signed with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab ...

In late February, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, issuing warnings that “if anyone tries to pass, the heroes of the Revolutionary Guard and the ...

Inspired by the social media–led movements of the Arab Spring, liberal democracies treated Internet freedom as a geopolitical principle to be evangelized rather than a problem to be regulated. Since ...

And Turkey’s realignment is not just talk. Over the past few years, Ankara has been distancing itself from Moscow by reducing its dependence on Russian energy and pruning the two countries’ economic ...

It has taken the Trump administration just two months to race through all five years of the Johnson administration’s Vietnam policy: entry, escalation, frustrated stalemate, and negotiations. Now, ...

Since 2020, Russia has been expanding its presence in the Sahel region, seizing the initiative from Paris and Washington and enhancing its standing across sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing that mounting ...

The second point of emerging consensus is that a fundamental remaking of that order has become essential. The American role in preserving the old order had become counterproductive and unsustainable, ...

This customary rule, recognized only by the colonial powers, permitted the strongest naval and commercial fleets to dominate the maritime commons and build global empires while assuring other states ...

A few weeks later, the president told a business forum that after Iran, Cuba “is next.” Already, the United States has imposed a near-total oil blockade of the country, plunging much of it into ...