Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 ...

THOMAS GRAHAM is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Co-Founder of Yale University’s Russian, East European, and Eu ...

Can the United States and China simultaneously cooperate and compete on AI? That is the question driving debates in Washington about the wisdom of pursuing talks on the subject with Beijing. The Biden ...

The world’s fertility crisis is more severe than is commonly understood. Last year, humanity’s total fertility level dropped below what demographers call the replacement rate—that is, the average ...

According to reports by the United Nations and the Global Terrorism Index, Africa is the overwhelming center of terrorist activity today. The African continent accounts for more than 50 percent of all ...

Just a few years ago, U.S. President Joe Biden caused a stir when he confirmed publicly that his administration would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by China—a divergence from the ...

MIRA RAPP-HOOPER is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and ...

China’s worldview treats development as equivalent to capital accumulation and sees productivity as determined by the control and deployment of technology. It posits that the growth of the service ...

For many, Morgenthau’s contributions begin and end with his identification of power as the key determinant of state behavior. But this reading misses one of his core observations: that even if humans ...

With the midterms over, U.S. President Donald Trump is now a lame duck. Second-term presidents who lose control of Congress have to face the reality that the time for signature legislation or other ...