He not only toppled a dictatorship that had ruled Syria for half a century but also, upon assuming leadership of the country, convinced Western capitals to lift or suspend most of the sanctions ...

Sitting in the shadow of authoritarian China, Taiwan has earned a reputation for its commitment to freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. For 30 years since its first direct ...

States calibrate their wartime trade to maximize the economic benefits to their domestic economies while minimizing the military advantage that policy provides their adversaries. That nuance allows ...

Last month, the Trump administration announced the start of the second phase of its Gaza peace plan, which the UN Security Council endorsed in November. Phase one, which went into effect last October, ...

Even after a decade of high drama in the People’s Liberation Army, the decision by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to remove Zhang from the PLA’s top governing body, the Central Military Commission (CMC), ...

It also marked the zenith of Xi’s latest officer purge, which has touched every corner of the PLA and claimed all but one top officer over the last few years. Although the move came as a shock, its ...

This month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos and delivered a blunt verdict on the international order. For decades, he argued, Western countries ...

Successive administrations and policymakers in both parties dismissed the tools of industrial policy as economically inefficient or politically suspect, even as government-led innovation never went ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media that he and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte had hammered out the “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland.” The ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

With the second Trump administration has come a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign economic policy. Washington is imposing tariffs on partners and rivals alike, slashing foreign aid, aggressively ...

There are moments in history when multiple internal and external factors act jointly to promote a certain outcome—when “perfect storms” brew and the seemingly unimaginable starts to take hold. Given ...