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 ...

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 ...

CHARLES KUPCHAN is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former member of the National Security Council staff during the ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador, Ellen Moodie, an anthropologist, traces the evolution of political activism in El Salvador from the civil war of the 1980s to the present ...

The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit and whether risks can be managed. In 1957, following the Soviet Sputnik launch, U.