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Mar 06, 2026
Amid global oil and gas disruptions, China stands prepared for the electrostate era.
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Mar 06, 2026
The White House wants to help choose Tehran's new leadership—and won't settle for anything less.
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Mar 06, 2026
As Washington abandons any pretense of a just global order, citizens around the world will continue to demand one.
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Mar 06, 2026
Why have defenders of national identity and sovereignty not embraced Kyiv's cause?
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Mar 06, 2026
Retracing the road to Brexit, a new book reveals the deep roots of British Euroskepticism.
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Mar 06, 2026
This week, Lebanon's longest-serving politician started hedging on Hezbollah.
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Mar 06, 2026
A poll of IR scholars reveals strong opposition to the conflict and fears about its risks.
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Mar 06, 2026
A CIA veteran depicts Moscow's espionage arsenal. What is the West going to do about it?
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Mar 06, 2026
Closing the Strait of Hormuz is a nightmare for global energy markets.
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Mar 06, 2026
It's a convenient argument that echoes an antisemitic trope.
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Mar 06, 2026
Ali Larijani has a pragmatic temperament—but a worldview shaped by the system he now leads.
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Mar 06, 2026
Beijing doesn't want to imitate the United States' alliance obligations.
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Mar 06, 2026
The outgoing president created a new blueprint for the Latin American left.
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Mar 06, 2026
Germany's chancellor is dragging his country into a new era. Will Germans go along?
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Mar 05, 2026
Trump's goals in Iran are expansive, shifting, and potentially impossible.
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Mar 05, 2026
Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh are weighing their options.
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Mar 05, 2026
From Azerbaijan to the Indian Ocean, the conflict's impact is spreading.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Middle Eastern conflict could drain Ukraine's supply of key defensive munitions and push U.S. President Donald Trump to quickly reach a deal with Russia.
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Mar 05, 2026
The U.S. war on Iran will weaken Islamist groups and embolden the Israeli right.
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Mar 05, 2026
Only by working together can Kurdish groups and the Iranian opposition forge a better future.
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Mar 05, 2026
Iran's attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.
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Mar 05, 2026
Americans across the political spectrum need to stop talking about Tehran in cliches.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Middle East conflict shows Washington hasn't yet learned enough about cheap drones from Kyiv.
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Mar 05, 2026
Each day of war that passes adds to the physical risks to global oil and gas, but so far markets have basically shrugged.
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Mar 05, 2026
Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.
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Mar 05, 2026
Reads that shed light on the origins of today's conflict—and Tehran's possible future.
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Mar 05, 2026
Beijing won't risk its broader Middle East interests to save the Islamic Republic.
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Mar 05, 2026
Hungary's populist prime minister is in a fight for his political life—and acting like it.
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Mar 04, 2026
The House is expected to hold a similar Iran war powers vote tomorrow.
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Mar 04, 2026
The continent is bracing for the ripple effects of a wide-ranging regional conflict.
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Mar 04, 2026
The war continues to reverberate across the region, from the Gulf to Turkey.
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Mar 04, 2026
Ahead of elections, calls to reinstate the king and bring an end to secularism have grown louder.
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Mar 04, 2026
The T20 World Cup has underscored that New Delhi is a schoolyard bully.
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Mar 04, 2026
Iran's survival strategy includes inflicting pain on its neighbors.
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Mar 04, 2026
The $8 trillion air freight industry faces huge challenges due to the war in the Middle East.
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Mar 04, 2026
A would-be Kremlin partner helping kill a Kremlin ally feeds the Russian leader's paranoia.
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Mar 04, 2026
The fallout from conflict in the Gulf will be much bigger than just oil.
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Mar 03, 2026
Democrats describe the assault as illegal and contrary to U.S. interests.
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Mar 03, 2026
The U.S. president and his officials can't get their story straight.
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Mar 03, 2026
Beijing is an unentangled superpower—but one with key interests at stake.
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Mar 03, 2026
Most U.S. citizens were not warned to leave the region before the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran.
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Mar 03, 2026
As chaos spreads from Iran, global shipping is buckling under the strain.
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Mar 03, 2026
Inexperienced and overextended, Trump's envoys have failed on three fronts.
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Mar 03, 2026
In response to Trump's strikes, European leaders have created an alternate reality to escape their hypocrisy.
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Mar 03, 2026
The war on Iran sounds the death knell for the old-school idea of "you break it, you own it."
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Mar 03, 2026
Mark Carney's tour of the Indo-Pacific this week is a rousing show of defiance, but it may have unintended effects.
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Mar 03, 2026
Indonesia's president offers to facilitate negotiations after U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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Mar 02, 2026
The White House is discovering that Iran and Israel have a higher tolerance for pain, according to Mideast expert Vali Nasr.
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Mar 02, 2026
All three countries are preparing to potentially wage weeks of conflict—or more.
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Mar 02, 2026
A divided opposition faces a long road ahead.
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Mar 02, 2026
Why the country's vaunted network of regional militias has mostly stayed quiet.
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Mar 02, 2026
"This is not a so-called regime change war," Hegseth said.
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Mar 02, 2026
Oil and gas prices have jumped, but not as high as one might expect.
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Mar 02, 2026
The attackers seek quick success as their air defenses dwindle. Iran will try to drag it out.
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Mar 02, 2026
War in Iran could pose instability risks as its neighbors to the east escalate their conflict.
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Mar 02, 2026
Why every U.S. president ends up in a major military campaign.
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Mar 02, 2026
The national security apparatus built after 9/11 transformed the country in unpredictable ways.
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Mar 01, 2026
The announcement comes as the war continues into its second day.
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Mar 01, 2026
The U.S. president said Tehran's leaders want to talk even as they vowed revenge.
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Mar 01, 2026
Airstrikes on Iran have already made the Middle East safer. They may also make it freer.
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Feb 28, 2026
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brought his country and regime to ruin.
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Feb 28, 2026
Iran has not confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death.
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Feb 28, 2026
Voters were promised America First, not Bush-era interventions.
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Feb 28, 2026
The United States and Israel have set a high bar for success in their war on Iran.
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Feb 28, 2026
Early views fell along ideological lines as the international community waits for damage reports.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israeli militaries are targeting Iran's leaders—but that may only strengthen the state.
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Feb 28, 2026
The worries include strikes against regional oil production as well as crude flows from the Persian Gulf.
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Feb 28, 2026
"They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can't take it anymore," Trump said.
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Feb 27, 2026
Islamabad bombed major Afghan cities, accusing Kabul of harboring the Pakistani Taliban.
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Feb 27, 2026
Test yourself on the week of Feb. 27: The ICC begins hearings against Rodrigo Duterte, the Russia-Ukraine war marks a grim anniversary, and China continues its feud with Japan.
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Feb 27, 2026
The shortage of a popular regional specialty is shaking global meat markets.
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Feb 27, 2026
From a Russian schoolteacher to an Iranian feminist, the choices reflect our troubled times.
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Feb 27, 2026
Students and teachers are struggling to keep education alive in underground schools.
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Feb 27, 2026
A quarter century of "forever wars" has inured Democrats and even Europeans to U.S. aggression.
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Feb 27, 2026
In India, a new caste census risks making prejudice permanent.
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Feb 27, 2026
Now is the time for Democratic leaders to stand firm against the risk of a catastrophic conflict.
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Feb 27, 2026
The killing of "El Mencho" shows that Mexico's president has ditched her predecessor's softer approach to cartels.
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Feb 27, 2026
The European Union is serious about technological sovereignty, but it's aware that it won't be easy.
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Feb 27, 2026
Iran's Look East doctrine resulted in a strategic partnership but not a strategic commitment.
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Feb 26, 2026
The U.S. military wants unrestricted use of the AI company's language models.
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Feb 26, 2026
Technical-level discussions are to take place in Vienna next week, Oman's foreign minister said.
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Feb 26, 2026
Technical-level discussions are to take place in Vienna next week, Oman's foreign minister said.
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Feb 26, 2026
Trump's rhetoric is reviving old U.S. fantasies about the island.
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Feb 26, 2026
The United States and Europe have found a rare area of cooperation.
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Feb 26, 2026
Trump's objectives remain opaque.
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Feb 26, 2026
What a popular new work of speculative political science gets right about Russia, Ukraine, and NATO.
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Feb 26, 2026
Few Republicans seem interested in codifying the duties that the Supreme Court struck down.
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Feb 26, 2026
The 1974 Trade Act was designed to counter long-gone problems.
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Feb 26, 2026
Commercial technology has upended the traditional military procurement cycle.
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Feb 25, 2026
As geopolitical tensions rise in the Horn of Africa, Cairo is flaunting its military might.
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Feb 25, 2026
Anthropic doesn't trust this administration with its technology—and it has a point.
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Feb 25, 2026
The Indian leader has made a strategic bet on the bilateral relationship.
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Feb 25, 2026
Many regional leaders worry that the U.S. oil embargo on Cuba will have spillover consequences.
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Feb 25, 2026
Many regional leaders worry that the U.S. oil embargo on Cuba will have spillover consequences.
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Feb 25, 2026
How a dispute between Afreximbank and Fitch Ratings is challenging financial orthodoxy.
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Feb 25, 2026
Targeting oil infrastructure that recalcitrant Hungary relies on lets Kyiv hit two birds with one drone.
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Feb 25, 2026
Crime groups operate less like nations and more like banks.
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Feb 25, 2026
Beijing is less likely to risk an invasion while Trump is facilitating its pressure campaign against Taipei.
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Feb 25, 2026
Some 20,000 Islamic State members and families are now at large, and no one has a plan for what to do about it.
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Feb 25, 2026
Some 20,000 Islamic State affiliates are now at large, and no one has a plan for what to do about it.
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