In 2020, the Office of Naval Intelligence told Congress that Chinese naval ships are now “in many cases comparable” to their ...

Some U.S. national security experts have taken to calling this group “the axis of upheaval” or “the axis of autocracy,” ...

A really noteworthy book. The author, a French professor of English literature and culture, takes the coal problem as a reflection of the social crisis in post-war England. After studying the coal ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he also directs the Center for Preventive Action.

But the pause in U.S. aid served as a dramatic wake-up call: the most crucial factor in determining how long and how ...

Iran has grappled with a series of setbacks. Hamas and Hezbollah, Tehran’s long-standing nonstate regional allies, have been ...

But its ability to deliver long-term growth and improve Americans’ quality of life hinges on whether it can build at scale.

In a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah in February, U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Everyone should understand that if the liberal order falls, the nonproliferation regime would fall with it. And the powers ...