But alongside the “rise of the rest,” something equally profound is occurring: the demise of “the West” itself as a coherent ...

Since the Assad regime was toppled in 2024, ISIS has waged a terror campaign throughout Syria, targeting the new Syrian ...

ROBERT MALLEY is a Lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. He served in senior Middle East positions ...

Russia denied responsibility, implying that the drones had simply lost their way; NATO and European officials suggested the ...

MICHELLE GAVIN is the Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was Senior Africa Director at the National Security Council from 2009 to 2011 and ...

That treaty remains China’s only formal alliance to date. Two decades later, similar fears drove China’s 1979 invasion of ...

In a March address to Congress, Trump declared, “The cartels are waging war in America, and it’s time for America to wage war ...

In the past five years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become Latin America’s most celebrated authoritarian. He has ...

As we described in Foreign Affairs in late January, ungoverning is rare in the history of politics. Authoritarians generally ...

BRIAN DEESE is Institute Innovation Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Director of the ...

IVO H. DAALDER is Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and served as U.S.

PRANAY VADDI is a Senior Nuclear Fellow at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of ...