For years, Washington effectively served as Israel’s patron, providing funding to purchase U.S. military equipment and a diplomatic umbrella (including veto protection in the UN Security Council) in ...

This book, edited by Gregory Baldi, examines a striking yet unexpected development in Europe in recent decades: the resurgence of nationalism.

For decades, they had advertised their belief in an American-led international order and a U.S.-dominated global economic system that they did not, in fact, believe in—and Canada was done pretending.

On April 8, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week cease-fire. But despite two days of negotiations in Islamabad and speculation about a second round of talks, the two sides have so far ...

Maduro’s ouster seemed to signal the imminent end of a regime that had for years oppressed and immiserated its people. Thanks to bold U.S. action, a government that had rankled its neighbors and sowed ...

The 75th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party in October 2020 was not the festive affair that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted it to be. Despite the fireworks, military flyover, and ...

David Lane’s notable addition to the tradition of insightful writing about Italy by British expats takes the form of a set of love letters to Rome—a city obsessed with its own history.

In Europe, a staggering three quarters of Germans and French view China unfavorably.” Compounding today’s multipolar mistrust, Westad argues, is a widespread ignorance of the true “intensity and scale ...

Two new books provide devastating portraits of a sad aspect of American exceptionalism: its anomalous approach to crime and punishment.

Over the course of six weeks of war between Iran, Israel, and the United States, Saudi Arabia’s restraint has perplexed some onlookers. After all, the war almost immediately spilled into the Persian ...

After a decade of elevated tensions, Washington and Beijing now find themselves navigating relatively calm waters. Last October, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached an ...

SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN served as head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council from 1997 to 2005. He is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University and the ...