For decades, American allies in Asia and Europe have relied on U.S. extended nuclear deterrence for their safety. They forswore acquiring their own nuclear weapons, agreeing instead to live under the ...

Beijing’s self-inflicted identity crisis.

The governments of the United States and China both assert that theirs is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. They also agree that the likeliest trigger for an armed conflict ...

Europe simultaneously faces an acute danger from within. Economic insecurity and immigration are fueling a populist nationalism that could debilitate, if not dismantle, the project of European ...

Early last summer, buried deep in an obscure budget document, the Trump administration effectively pronounced dead the primary government program for workers who lose their jobs because of trade. The ...

When the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran in late February, the regime in Tehran was in an unprecedented position of weakness. It faced existential economic and environmental crises ...

China is increasingly embracing the mantle that comes with being a global superpower. Its rise is forcing the rest of the world to assess its credentials as a potential hegemon and a provider of ...

The microplastics crisis will get worse in the next decade and a half even relative to the overall plastics emergency. There are seven main known sources of microplastics: tires, paint, recycling, ...

A stalemate is the least admired of diplomatic outcomes. It resolves nothing, satisfies no one, and is counted as a victory only by the weaker party, for whom survival is achievement enough. But this ...

Next year, France could elect its first far-right leader since 1944. Campaigning for the elections, which are scheduled for next April, is already underway, and opinion poll after opinion poll shows ...

NATO has been in crisis since the moment it was founded. The alliance has weathered more than a dozen severe episodes of disagreement among members over money, strategy, military operations, nuclear ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement, on June 14, of the end of the war in Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz came as a relief to countries around the world. A negotiated settlement was ...