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 ...

On July 17, an Iranian missile struck Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, killing three American soldiers and wounding four others. The strike was unusually precise. In the weeks that followed, U.S.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

A high-level debate on the Chinese and global economy, carried out by Mike Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president and former U.S. trade representative, and Nicholas Lardy, an expert on the ...