It was only seven months ago, in May, that Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin to sign a treaty on strategic partnership and cooperation that stated that Russia and ...

Unless Bosnia’s international partners start paying more attention, Dodik and other nationalist leaders will continue to erode Dayton’s constraints on ethnic autonomy and secessionist ambitions. The ...

For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that direct attempts at regime change by the United States have ended in disaster. And for good reason. In Afghanistan, the very same Taliban ...

It was part of the détente that culminated in the Helsinki Accords, the breakthrough agreement that finally, 30 years after the end of World War II, stabilized relations between the Western alliance ...

At risk is the survival of any rules at all—and with them any constraints on the exercise of state power. Before countries renounced the right to war, first in the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and then ...

The Americanization of Greenland transcended brute imperial force in the Russian mold. Two years earlier, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s showy military ouster of Venezuela’s leader, ...

Unless the Trump administration adheres to its declared policy objectives, exerts more influence over congressional Republican leaders, and does a better job of selling its “America first” vision to ...

We have witnessed a new revolution.” The 1898 era is back. The superficial parallels are many. U.S. President Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for tariffs and protectionism, his interest in reclaiming the ...

The pre-positioning approach of Littleton and Volt Typhoon is indicative of Beijing’s emerging interest in waging war against entire systems, attacking the connective tissue that allows an adversary ...

In its place, countries are fast adopting a values-neutral, transactional approach toward foreign policy. China was the progenitor of this approach to international relations: for over a decade, ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...