S. Frederick Starr, American Purpose
The fall of ancient Rome contains chilling lessons for Russia's modern-day Caesar.
Nada Wanni, The National Interest
The civil war that began in April between rival generals shows no signs of ending.
Lev Nachman & Wen-Ti Sung, AC
On December 21, Beijing unilaterally declared it would soon end preferential tariff terms for some Taiwanese exports to China, terms that were previously...
Francis Sempa, American Spectator
Writing in the Diplomat, R. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College professor of Latin America research, warns about "China's Growing Strategic Position...
Philip Pilkington, The Telegraph
The crisis in the Middle East looks like it might be spiralling out of control. T
Alex Kliment, GZero Media
Argentine President Javier Milei's dramatic spending cuts have provoked protests at home, but they've won him plaudits from abroad. On Thursday, an IMF delegation...
Will Freeman, LAT
Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.
Spiked
Ever since the shock victories for Brexit and Donald Trump in 2016, centrist parties have tried desperately to restore their beloved technocratic consensus - the stultifying...
Kat Duffy and Katie Harbath, Foreign Affairs
This year, over 80 national elections are scheduled to take place, directly affecting an estimated 4.2 billion people—52 percent of the globe's...
Scott Kennedy, CSIS
From 2018 to 2023, U.S.-China relations were in a linear downward spiral. The trade war, the pandemic, growing technology competition, rising tensions in the South China...
Luke Coffey, Arab News
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently made an important visit to Saudi Arabia. This was the first such visit by a sitting secretary-general and will...
Aaron Bastani, UnHerd
"Iran is a terror octopus," wrote Naftali Bennett, Israel's former prime minister, on X last week while sharing an article he had written for the Wall Street...
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, The Hill
Iran has been playing a dangerous game of kinetic brinkmanship with the United States since the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
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