The assassination attempt in May 2024 in the village of Handlova that gravely injured Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico ...

American allies in the Indo-Pacific are the cornerstone of the US strategy to maintain regional stability, deter aggression, ...

That new threat is Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI). It lurks on the social media sites we visit, and in the various ways we obtain ...

The erosion of the norms against the use of chemical weapons is a critical threat to global security. Recent cases in Syria, Russia, and North Korea demonstrate persistent violations of the global ...

The two weeks after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s Oval Office clash have precipitated drastic shifts in transatlantic relations and the potential trajectory of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now a ...

At the end of November 2023 in London, I heard the question—”Why is Ukraine not searching for peace?”—asked by a taxi driver on my way to the airport. He is not alone in his thoughts. It raises ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The ...

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...