The war in Sudan is a battle for land and resources. Over nearly three years of conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces—the country’s regular army—and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have traded ...

In a November 2025 survey conducted by YouGov and designed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for example, 54 percent of respondents agreed that “the United States is becoming less ...

China’s successful pursuit of innovation means that an authoritarian superpower is now capable of challenging the United States in East Asia, supporting autocracies worldwide, and shaping global ...

The two countries employ 70 percent of the world’s top machine learning researchers, command 90 percent of global computing power, and attract the vast majority of AI investment—more than twice the ...

For the first time in eight decades, Europe stands alone. European states now find themselves vulnerable to Russian aggression. Should Moscow turn its attention beyond Ukraine and rebuild its war ...

When China’s property market collapsed in 2021, its leaders scrambled to find a new driver of economic growth to replace housing construction. More investment in infrastructure, which had powered much ...

LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of the forthcoming book Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions.

Unless U.S. President Donald Trump can persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the fighting—an unlikely scenario—Russia will probably try harder to subjugate Ukraine, not because the ...

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 ...

Using military force to project strength thus carries both benefits and risks, and whether the tradeoff ultimately works in a president’s favor depends on whether the intervention decisively achieves ...

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, ...