Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

Coercion could backfire. Although it will not always be China that benefits—many Asian countries hedge beyond the great ...

The move, which followed steps taken in the first Trump administration to curtail China’s access to cutting-edge ...

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. She is the former NATO Deputy ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

But even if Hamas and Israel hammer out a new, short-term agreement to halt hostilities, Gaza is unlikely to see real peace any time soon. Since the horrific October 7 massacre, which claimed the ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

How to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...