In recent years, after all, China has escalated its campaign of coercion against the island democracy, lobbing missiles over it, staging a blockade during live-fire military exercises, and threatening ...

Rebuilding Gaza is one of the greatest city-making tasks in modern history—perhaps all history. Roughly 60 million tons of rubble bestrews an area as large as a midsize American city. Haaretz reported ...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and ...

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.

Focusing on colonial narratives and the efforts of African intellectuals to refute them, Mamadou Diouf considers nationalist, Afrocentric, subaltern (or postcolonial), and other prominent efforts to ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...