The United States’ epic twentieth-century successes in diplomacy set dangerously high expectations. Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945; U.S. President Harry Truman created NATO in ...

The United States appears ready to pull much of its military from Europe. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, a key policy document, declared that it was time for the continent ...

Over the past year, the world’s attention has turned to economic chokepoints—with good reason. Iran has exercised its control over the Strait of Hormuz to gum up the global economy, and China has used ...

The war in Ukraine is causing undeniable harm across Russia. Ukraine’s deep strikes into Russian territory have added to the war’s civilian death toll; disrupted online commerce, a significant sector ...

The irony has not been lost on European policymakers. As U.S. President Donald Trump desperately casts about for a 51st state—Canada, Greenland, and Panama all said no this past year—the European ...

By attacking Saudi shipping and Saudi Arabia itself, they have effectively opened a second front in the Iran war, broadening that conflict and placing further pressure on global energy and financial ...

For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social ...

Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and national security risks, policymakers in both ...

The United States has long viewed Russia as a power in terminal decline. This assessment formed in the 1980s as the Soviet Union began showing clear signs of imperial overstretch, and it congealed ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western countries responded with aggressive economic restrictions, freezing Russia’s official foreign exchange reserves, placing export controls on critical ...