While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...

Moscow’s failures will resound beyond the Middle East. Whether the result of Putin’s conscious decision not to intervene or ...

Despite U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, the company had managed to develop a customizable open technology ...

The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, ...

Momentum in Europe is building: years of marginal steps to bolster European defenses gave way to meaningful action after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and these efforts have accelerated in the six ...

Today, anthrax remains one of the deadliest and easiest biological weapons to produce. Yet 80 percent of the U.S. supply of ...

MATAN CHOREV is a Senior Researcher and Associate Director of RAND Global and Emerging Risks. During the Biden administration ...

A new wave of purges has engulfed the senior leadership of China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army. Since the 20th National Party Congress in October 2022, more than 20 senior PLA officers from ...

The past two months have witnessed a remarkable spike in warfare involving nuclear powers. From May 7 to May 10, India and ...

LGBTQ rights endure when they are written into or otherwise grounded in national constitutions; culturally normalized across ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...