Column Archive

With a consolidation of competing alliance blocs, the world is entering a perilous time. It may only get worse.

The next U.K. government will have to decide how much to invest in multilateralism, at a time when international tensions buffet the U.N. system.

Brexit alone doesn’t explain the Conservative Party’s widely anticipated defeat in Britain’s upcoming elections.

President Xi Jinping is doubling down on China’s manufacturing capacity to enhance its global power, at the expense of needed reforms.

The only other regional leader Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa praises is on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That’s very telling.

The consensus that the U.S. is engaged in a strategic competition with China masks a deeper debate that is set to last.

Armenia requested to pull out of the Russia-led CSTO, a major blow to Moscow’s influence in the South Caucasus region.

President Emmanuel Macron’s strategy to counter Marine Le Pen and France’s far right may backfire in upcoming elections.

Two new reports represent a new salvo in global civil society’s efforts to stigmatize nuclear weapons.

Peru’s president and Congress are deeply unpopular. That’s not keeping them from undoing the country’s democracy.

The G7 summit has become an important political forum for the Western-led global order. But its long-term survival is still unclear.

There’s no denying that the European Parliament elections strengthened Russia’s influence in Europe and weakened Ukraine’s hand.

The Conservative Party’s looming decimation in U.K. elections will reshape a British political order that once seemed eternal.

President Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s economic future is about a lot more than growth. It’s also a huge gamble.

Russia’s military exercises in the Caribbean, alongside Cuba and Venezuela, coincide with two overlapping challenges in the region.

The Normandy invasion had a significant and lasting effect on international politics, shaping the rest of the 20th century and even today.

President Biden loosened restrictions and sanctions on Cuba in a delicate effort to thread a difficult political needle.