Tag: geopolitics

U.S. President Donald Trump’s profound changes to Washington’s foreign policy during the past few months have unleashed a debate about the extent to which the self-destruction of U.S. global leadership ...

Taiwan is experiencing an energy crisis. As the island completes a phaseout of nuclear power plants—long the bedrock of its energy mix—plans for a promised offshore wind buildup have sputtered. ...

Baltic coastal states are stepping up their legal enforcement measures to further pressure Russia’s continued use of a so-called shadow fleet of tankers to circumvent Western sanctions and fund its ...

The smooth election of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th pontiff reflected the careful groundwork laid by Pope Francis, who appointed 80 percent of the cardinals eligible to vote in ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Thailand’s political instability, trade concerns in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, and controversy over a satirical cartoon in Turkey. Deferential Tone Thailand’s ...

At the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6 and 7, the group’s leaders will celebrate a significant expansion of their organization. Since 2024, the core BRICS ...

When I started writing on Carl Schmitt in the 1990s, the reaction in U.S. academia was often that you could treat a Nazi jurist with extraordinary capacities as a historical ...

U.S. presidents have big egos—if they didn’t, their chances of reaching the Oval Office would be slim—and they want to be remembered favorably after they are gone. A few presidents, ...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, several prominent thinkers focused their minds on the shape of the world to come. Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” (1989), Samuel Huntington’s ...

This year, Europe celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of what came next. The declaration of Austrian independence on April 27, 1945, ...