MONA YACOUBIAN is Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace. This ...

In April 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan delivered a critique of the neoliberal consensus that had served ...

It steadily degraded Hezbollah and Iran, judging that although both would maintain low-level conflict, neither wanted a ...

Indeed, China is rapidly developing and producing weapons systems designed to deter the United States and, if deterrence ...

ANDREW P. MILLER is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of ...

A close analysis of the leaked files suggests that although Russia is using new technological methods to disseminate ...

Having a strategy—a theory of victory—is essential to winning a war. In 2022, Russia’s initial plan to capture Kyiv and decapitate Ukraine’s leadership failed, and its current approach of grinding ...

For decades, the United States has promoted democracy around the globe. But amid mounting U.S.-Chinese competition, a question has arisen: is Beijing attempting to export its authoritarian political ...

Over the last few decades, populists have come to power in a long list of countries. Italy elected Silvio Berlusconi, and Turkey empowered Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Venezuela had Hugo Chávez and now ...

The world Americans face today is more complicated—and dangerous—than it has been for decades. Yet there is a growing, and in many ways understandable, desire to turn inward—a sense that there is ...

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On the morning of September 17, soldiers in a remote base in Puerto Jordán, Arauca, along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, ...