Is Russia playing the victim, or is the sense of impending siege justified?
Its new national security strategy may be calculated to appeal to voters, but the West has clearly helped to push Putin’s buttons, too.
Its new national security strategy may be calculated to appeal to voters, but the West has clearly helped to push Putin’s buttons, too.
Sanctions like those imposed on Cuba fail to achieve their stated policy objectives and create misery for millions of innocent people.
Will the departure of some 3,000 American troops from Afghanistan be a harbinger of a more fundamental realignment of U.S. Middle East security policy?
If Biden clings to a calcified and militarized conception of national security — as he appears intent on doing — he will put his entire presidency at risk.
Reporting on potential membership of the SCO further counters the Western narrative that Iran is internationally isolated.
In his new book, the long time US foreign policy critic says some radical approaches are in order, ‘After the Apocalypse.’
After centuries of domination by foreigners, the Middle East is now being reshaped primarily by interactions between countries within it.
A new book tries, but largely fails, to bridge the gap between two camps of US grand strategy.
To hold its own with China, the United States must renew its competitive capacity and build a demonstrably better governed society.
One author of the Eurasia Group Foundation’s latest survey said its findings line up ‘tidily’ with a pro-restraint worldview.
If Biden wants to be “Dr. Build Back Better,” he should assume the additional role of “Dr. Curb the War Habit.”
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Chinese and American leaders are now playing a game of chicken that couldn’t be more dangerous for both countries and the planet.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
The administration’s approach of “multilateral restoration” has many virtues compared to four years of MAGA. But it has considerable shortcomings as well.
Amid Washington chatter about the future of U.S.-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign.
The Biden administration seems to think that China is a problem like Covid-19 that can be managed simply by being the un-Trump.
Going all in on a military, economic, and cultural competition with China — and forging a wafer-thin bipartisan consensus to do so — is the height of folly.
In Washington, members of the foreign policy elite recite stale bromides, even as they divert attention from a dead past to which they remain devoted.
Lavrov is certain to want to capitalize on Mr. Biden’s rattling of Middle Eastern cages amid perceptions that recalibration of relations with Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. needs to swiftly re-energize diplomacy with Iran rather than be sucked into new tit-for-tat military strikes.