If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
Following last weekend’s deadly helicopter crash, Ayatollah Khamenei is running out of time to manage the future of the Islamic... Read More
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2021, Admiral Philip Davidson, the retiring commander of U.S. military joint forces... Read More
Heaven help us all if Russian Patriarch Kirill has his way. Just after Vladimir Putin’s inauguration on May 7 as self-elected... Read More
On a sunny, balmy Tuesday in late April, a line of cars formed outside a military proving ground near Kyiv, their passengers eager to catch a... Read More
Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO and currently Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA),... Read More
Imagine, for a moment, there was a secretive Russian-backed news media organization designed to weaken the European establishment by... Read More
How France manages the first outbreak of serious violence in New Caledonia in 40 years will affect not only its future role there but its... Read More
Some liberals and conservatives are losing confidence in democracy as a force for good. This trend needs to be reversed, for the world's... Read More
The White House has not been physically attacked, but its current occupant has succeeded in undermining and eroding America’s standing... Read More
With global attention focused on Gaza and the attacks on Israel by Iran, to the south, nearby Sudan passed a grim milestone largely unnoticed... Read More
Iran's president oversees domestic affairs, but country ultimately run by 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Read More
Israel does not want to run the Gaza Strip, and yet that may allow Hamas to regroup. Read More
The Israeli ex-general throws down the gauntlet to the man Israel’s elite and American policymakers see as the country’s true... Read More
The Russian government announced last week a massive shakeup of its senior staff. Several ministers in civilian sectors such as energy,... Read More
The U.S. government decided to provide more assistance to Ukraine just in the nick of time. By the end of April, right before the aid package... Read More
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's term runs out today, May 20. While the war with Russia has enabled a quiet extension, it is a... Read More
Ukraine’s fate is no longer hostage to neo-isolationists in the US Congress. But its fortunes are still at their lowest ebb... Read More
Armenia is facing a showdown between its church and state, and Iran and Russia are siding with the church. Read More
If recent polls are anything to go by, France’s mainstream political parties are losing voters in the run-up to the European Parliament... Read More
My friend and I wrote recently about how the Gaza war may end up costing Joe Biden re-election. Read More
The question is, what can be done to bolster support for democracy among Europe’s youth before it’s too late? Read More
Fareed Zakaria offers some useful, Burkean insights on how to navigate today's uncertainties, but his recommendations are unhelpfully... Read More
For more than a couple of decades, the Russian Federation has been in the process of reasserting itself as a telluric Eurasian force to be... Read More
For years, researchers have sought to trace the source of Students for Justice in Palestine's funding but it has been difficult as these... Read More
Accidents happen everywhere, but not all accidents are equal. Many hours after initial news broke about an “incident” involving a... Read More
Taiwan’s new president said the island democracy would serve as a “helmsman of global peace” under his watch in a carefully... Read More
In early April, in the seventh month of Israel’s campaign to dismantle Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrew the majority of... Read More
Let’s also hope that those who keep on criticizing Israel for supposedly violating the IHL will gather the courage to look in the... Read More
As the world watches, they see a number of powerful governments virtually on the sidelines. Read More
The pier the U.S. built on the Gaza coastline has received its first cargo shipments. But it might not just be... Read More
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania tread a fine line between alarm and despondency. Read More
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing last week, culminating in his awkward bro-hug with Xi Jinping, should put to rest two misguided... Read More
In late April, Congress waved Ukraine's colors once again while appropriating another $60 billion for the Ukraine war. Within days,... Read More
If time is on Ukraine’s side, then it should avoid negotiations and drag out the war for as long as possible. If time is on... Read More
The strategy is a three-legged stool consisting of tariffs, security restrictions and tech subsidies Read More
Of the four parties which have just agreed to form a new government in the Netherlands, three can be described as populist —... Read More
A week after the UK expelled the Russian defence attaché, Colonel Maxim Yelovik, for being ‘an undeclared intelligence... Read More
Last April, stories broke out about beatings, mistreatment and unpaid salaries among thousands of Cuban soldiers fighting in the Russian... Read More
Why Turkey’s application to join South Africa’s ICJ case trivializes the charges against Israel. Read More
The deaths of two of Iran’s most powerful hardline politicians — President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein... Read More
For more than two decades, supporters of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have urged the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the... Read More
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi perished in what Iranian media initially labeled a “hard landing.” That... Read More
Russia’s early setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine could have foreclosed on some of President Vladimir Putin’s sweeping war... Read More
Contrary to a meme that’s popular among Western policy analysts, there is no Chinese “export surge.” China’s exports... Read More
But it's Washington's big foot that prevails here, whether US policymakers want to acknowledge it or... Read More
If war breaks out in the Indo-Pacific, it will not be over Taiwan but over the atolls and shoals dotting the South China Sea. At least,... Read More
If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
