Tag: geopolitics

For people in Washington who focus on Iran and can tune out the rest of the Trump-induced chaos, the city feels kind of like it did a decade ago when ...

For more than a decade, security and economic dynamics in the Asia-Pacific have been pulling in opposite directions. Geopolitical tensions and competing nationalisms have reinforced the U.S. role as a ...

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...

Europe is confused, and understandably so. Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump’s treatment of Washington’s oldest allies has been incoherent and disjointed. He wants Europeans to spend more ...

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump paused the global trade war he launched last week, giving nearly every country a 90-day reprieve on the new, ...

Take a seat in almost any introduction to international relations course at a U.S. university, and you’ll probably catch an opening lecture on the “Melian Dialogue” from Thucydides’s famed history ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on every country in the world, but few could feel as betrayed as Australia. Greens leader Adam Bandt, who together with other minor ...

The sun was just coming up on March 19, 2023, as gunmen invaded the Chimbolo gold mine in the Central African Republic and opened fire on the Chinese employees residing ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s hectic return to office has left America’s European allies scratching their heads. His opinions on NATO, the European Union, and Ukraine are well known—and to a ...

For 75 years, America’s NATO allies have relied on the U.S. nuclear arsenal to provide for the defense of Europe. This was never a terribly logical policy. As Lawrence Freedman, ...