Monica de Bolle, an expert in Brazilian economic policy, makes an authoritative argument that Brazil’s economic problems will persist no matter the outcome of the country’s presidential election. A ...

Europeans have been humiliated, disparaged, and sidelined since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that Europe has become the president’s ...

On October 8, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group returned to the United States after 320 days at sea. The deployment—a near record for the modern American military—had become ...

Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic thinking over the past year ...

This obsession with wielding and countering chokepoint power may seem sudden, but it has evolved over the last quarter century as a byproduct of globalization itself. As economies integrated, ...

In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of worried European finance ministers that the dollar was “our currency, ...

Along with providing safe haven, refugee camps can also become petri dishes for states to experiment with new technologies of surveillance and control. Hanno Brankamp, a political geographer, explores ...

Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Class Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece arguing that Europe, despite its attempts at self-sufficiency, remains dependent on ...

Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of Radical Democracy,” Hari Ramesh argues that even when powerful groups dominate a country, oppressed groups can harness the government’s power toward their own ends ...

The Past of the Present Upheaval by Moses E. Ochonu and The Burning Ground: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa explore how the past shapes Nigeria’s present.

From Hiroshima to the Age of Algorithms, John Arquilla laments the U.S. government’s fixation on nuclear weapons, airpower, and computational analytics, which has prevented its officials from grasping ...

How Trump Voters Seized the Party From Republican Leaders, Seth Masket, a political scientist, conducted extensive interviews and surveys throughout 2021 and 2024 with the Republican officials ...