Shashi Tharoor considers how to overcome key risks and harness the country’s advantages in talent, stability, and scale.

Mohammed Al Dhaheri & Rikard Jalkebro warn that the conditions are not yet in place for a US-Iran agreement that supports ...

Ian Buruma examines why threatening civilians’ survival is a surefire way to convince them not to turn on their leaders.

Chiara Cordelli shows how right-wing populism and war in the Middle East are inspiring renewed democratic and green activism.

Pegah Banihashemi sees two scenarios, neither of them hopeful, emerging from a profoundly disrupted legal and institutional ...

Brahma Chellaney argues that the Islamic Republic has upended the model on which US interventionism has long relied.

Federico Fubini sees striking parallels between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s catastrophic wars of choice.

Dianne Araral & Eduardo Araral caution that escaping one form of geopolitical vulnerability does not eliminate the influence ...

Joschka Fischer For the past decade, Donald Trump has promised to put America first by keeping the country out of any more costly “forever wars”—a message that has carried him to the US presidency ...

Guillermo Ortiz highlights the increasingly visible effects of political centralization and poor use of fiscal resources.

Fadhel Kaboub sees only one viable long-term path for African countries as they respond to the latest war-induced energy ...