Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald Trump has been true to form regarding his blitzkrieg joint attack with Israel on Iran. But, beyond the bombast and ...

Contemporary great power competition is shifting toward strategic “gateways” of the international system — regions where geopolitical influence, economic infrastructure and military power intersect.

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without coordinated objectives. How does such a war end? Between chaos and democracy — the former with a much higher probability than the latter — myriad ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Looked at from outside, as a non-Indian India hand, India follower, the picture that has been painted, that one thinks one sees at least in part, is that Modi and his party have said they wanted to ...

For a sports event established and still trading on the rhetoric of world peace and unity, such a controversial intervention from a past FIFA leader is unprecedented and extraordinary. FIFA, ...

Zou Jiayi’s appointment as president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) underscores the Bank’s deep political alignment with the Chinese Communist Party, challenging its claim to ...

In February 1968, on a bright day that felt like an awakening, 5,000 people from 124 nations gathered around a lone banyan tree in a dusty corner of Tamil Nadu. They had come to listen to an elderly ...

The author recounts his personal testimony of arriving in Kyiv an hour before a massive Russian missile and drone attack, witnessing firsthand the resilience and bravery of Ukrainians enduring ...

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

The Democratic Party’s failure to change course over policies has increasingly isolated younger voters. The Party’s elites dismiss youth-led movements while also showing little accountability for past ...