But the episode—together with Trump’s repeated talk of incorporating Canada as “the 51st state”—has spurred NATO allies in the Arctic region to step up their security activities. Canada pledged $28 ...

The Pentagon is broken, but Congress can fix it.

In 2025, Chinese leader Xi Jinping tried to capitalize on U.S. belligerence toward Europe by promoting China as the responsible great-power alternative. In a message sent to mark the 50th anniversary ...

Trump is exceptionally dedicated to coercion as a core foreign policy tool yet is one of its least effective practitioners. The problem lies in Trump’s conflation of coercion—a nuanced foreign policy ...

Following the back-to-back state visits to China in May by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, many U.S. and European commentators noted that the summit meetings yielded ...

Through much of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, as the United States’ popularity around the world has ebbed and flowed, the country has been able to fall back on a baseline of ...

China is becoming the country that provides the goods and services that are part of people’s daily lives. The omnipresence of Chinese products is expanding the country’s influence in ways Beijing ...

They remain far apart on core disputes, including those related to Iran’s nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz, and sanctions relief. As a result, many analysts are skeptical that the parties can ...

After months of war and intense interference in domestic Ukrainian affairs, Moscow signed a series of cease-fire agreements in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in September 2014 and February 2015.

But amid this upheaval, Senegal remains a democracy in which strong institutions mostly govern capably. The country possesses skilled civil servants with track records of transparent, efficient fiscal ...

The 2026 documents increase the party’s direct role in managing the country’s affairs while also embracing the private sector and sidelining state-owned enterprises. Vietnam’s leaders are betting that ...

At the G-7 summit in June, the global media eagerly gathered to hear U.S. President Donald Trump provide details about his administration’s latest agreement with Iran. But Trump insisted on returning ...