Donald Trump, in agreeing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, seems willing to endorse countries flouting international law.
Russia’s relentless assault against democratic institutions cannot go ignored.
A century later, Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson still cast huge shadows on the world stage ...
Russias recent aggression along its border shows why Kyiv needs decisive action from the alliance.
A new U.S. grand strategy toward international relations has emerged emphasizing actors over institutions.
America and China, each behaving in self-interest, might not cooperate even when it makes sense to do so.
Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.
The history of the Group of Seven shows how the West went from a geographic category to a geopolitical group — and back again.
Janet Yellens proposal has all but zero chance of success.
The Monroe Doctrine is disparaged in Washington and Latin America, but it remains the foundation of the liberal international order the US leads today... <meta name=
NATO's new Strategic Concept acknowledges the threats from China and Russia, but some U.S. businesses want the return of failed engagement policies.
The greatest danger a nation can face is political delusion on the part of its elites. An unwillingness to face geopolitical realities jeopardizes a nation’s interest and survival.
Our experts help illuminate this shadowy zone of strategic competitionand offer ways for Washington and its allies to begin seizing the advantage.
U.S. intelligence officials paint a dreary next half-decade for incoming President Donald Trump that will see waning American power amid slow growth while China and Russia are emboldened to counter U.S. influence, according to a new global trends report.
Joe Bidens visit to Ottawa comes as the economic pendulum swings away from the free trade ideology that Washington had championed for decades
We must recognize that world affairs are rarely black and white, that alliances should serve as instruments of U.S. policy rather than as ends in themselves, and that—like it or not—history as we always knew it has returned.
The bitter and highly polarised November 2020 election was watched with disbelief and distaste across the world
It's in American interests to support the Caucasian republic.
Canada's foreign minister says the country must spend more on its military now that the U.S. is questioning its role of global leadership.
Battered spouses take aim at a controversial custody strategy.
After Pearl Harbor, Americans were determined, in Roosevelts ringing phrase, to win through to absolute victory. Would we be today?
Canada's foreign minister says the country must spend more on its military now that the U.S. is questioning its role of global leadership.
Vice President Biden delivered remarks at the 19th annual Korbel Dinner at the University of Denver’s Korbel School of International Studies. Below are excerpts from his speech. Ladies and Gentlemen…
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland didn't mention President Donald Trump by name but reiterated Canada's disappointment in Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
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The transatlantic relationship can no longer be an engine of global democracy thanks to Donald Trump. So the EU must rethink its partnerships with other democratic powers.
Internationalists realize the order is at grave risk, and along with it the seven decades of relative growth, prosperity and peace it provided.
The planet is a safer place because of the liberal world order. The president wants to destroy it.
Donald Trump’s presidential victory in November, a product of surging anti-establishment populism, has unnerved the U.S. foreign-policy establishment and its liberal-internationalist cousins abroad.
Talk about the “liberal order” ducks the real disagreements in the Pacific
A scholar of U.S. foreign policy explains why the 2016 race could be the most consequential election—anywhere—since the 1930s.
In Twilight of the Titans, two scholars provide a warning to a rising China, and a road map for the United States to regain its standing.
Whether grand strategy or mere moment-to-moment impulse, President Trump’s brash treatment of European allies may do long-term damage.
Kagan's strident defense of the "liberal order" and his record of supporting repeated U.S. violations of international law serve as a perfect example of the myopia that the critics of "liberal order" mythology are decrying.
Contrary to what Niall Ferguson suggests, if the liberal international system gets reduced to economics, it will no longer exist.
Brazilian diplomats cite many legitimate concerns about the US-led world order, but CISAC deputy director Harold Trinkunas notes that the alternatives are worse.
The Japanese attack on a US naval base on Dec. 7, 1941 set in motion a series of events that transformed the United States into a global superpower. Will Donald Trump bring that era to an end?
Realists need to get a lot more realistic about the global legal system.
Delegates need to consider what is to be done to save the model from wreckage
It would be foolish to see the history of international relations as a slow but steady path towards ever more integration.
With neo-authoritarianism on the rise, the old assumptions undergirding a common set of Western values just won’t do.
Explanatory Note: A few weeks ago, I offered some comments on John Ikenberry's new book Liberal Leviathan, based on a panel discussion from the September…
Other nations tolerated the erosion of liberal values in Venezuela for a long time before crisis hit.
The Japanese attack on a US naval base on Dec. 7, 1941 set in motion a series of events that transformed the United States into a global superpower. Will Donald Trump bring that era to an end?
Mike Pompeo said Trump is reforming the "liberal international order" by restoring the role of nation-states, and making America stronger.
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America’s role in the world 75 years after Pearl Harbor Peter Harris, Colorado State University The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a pivotal moment in U.S. and world history. The attack thrust the U.S. into World War II and set in motion a series of events that would transform the country into a global superpower and guardian of international order. Seventy-five years later, this legacy of Pearl Harbor now faces perhaps its biggest challenge. Three …
How nationalism went international
Teary-eyed nostalgia as cover for U.S. hegemony
Disney is developing a live-action fairytale film centered around an African princess called, 'Sade.'
The Pearl Harbor attack turned out to be one of the biggest moments in world history
America has to wake up to the new normal.
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The global order is crumbling, domestic renewal is urgent, and America must reinvent its role in the world.
By George Friedman Ever since the end of the Cold War, there has been an assumption that conventional warfare between reasonably developed nation-states had been abolished. During the 1990s, it was expected that the primary purpose of the military would be operations other than war, such as peacekeeping, disaster relief and the [...]
"On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende's democratically elected socialist government was overthrown in a military coup led by the U.S.-backed fascist Augusto Pinochet."
China gave strong verbal backing to Kazakhstan’s leader for his deadly crackdown to quell violent unrest, but stood aside as Russia sent in special forces troops. Resource-rich Kazakhstan, on China's western border, has economic and strategic importance for Beijing and is an important link in its “Belt and Road" infrastructure initiative to expand its global trade and political influence in rivalry with the U.S. and its allies. China's response to the crisis unders
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday the alliance was implementing its biggest defence reinforcement since the Cold War, as the region grapples with terrorism and an increasingly assertive Russia. "NATO is facing a new security environment, both caused by violence, turmoil, instability in the south -- ISIL in Iraq, Syria, North Africa -- but also caused by the behaviour of a more assertive Russia, which has used force to change borders, to annex Crimea and to destabilise eastern Ukrai
In 1629, frustrated by the unwillingness of Parliament to grant him taxation power, King Charles I of England dissolved the body and had nine members arrested. He did not recall Parliament for over a decade. The intervening period, known as Personal Rule, saw Charles I govern as a de facto dictator, with only a body…
A consensus could emerge for the far more realistic, but still challenging, vision of America as the senior partner leading a growing group of respons
American politicians should stop pretending the United States runs the world.
The government of President NicolsMaduro condemned "the political polarization and the spiral of violence" fueled by a "deep" political and social crisis in the U.S.
Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.
The oft-unacknowledged truth is that the Russian Navy is a lot more operational now than it has been in many years.
It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
The former culture minister has been named as successor to late Sultan Qaboos.
Cheneys willingness to acknowledge the truth about Trump embarrasses other Republicans by exposing their cowardly inaction.
The study of international relations is supposed to tell us how the world works. It's a tall order, and even the best theories fall short.…
Herman Cain won’t be “trashing” his fellow tea-party candidate Michele Bachmann, but he’s convinced that his more extensive business experience will give him a boost...
Trump's bizarre phone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have serious consequences for regional and global stability
Turbulent Trump diplomacy ends with scrapped Europe, Taiwan trips
Get to know Miami's fourth-round pick.
Today is a day for joy. Hosni Mubarak has stepped down immediately as President of Egypt. Following on the heels of the departure of Ben Ali in Tunisia, we are witnessing the hitherto unprecedented...
CHINA HAS the look of a self-confident superpower. Beijing is testing geopolitical limits and asserting its influence almost everywhere; it is no laonger content to accept second-tier status among the
The problem isn’t China’s rise, but rather America’s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China’s backyard
Italy and China need to forge closer ties, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, potentially putting Rome at odds with Washington, which has raised alarm over Beijing's economic ambitions.
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The timing was poetic: President Biden's Philadelphia speech comparing states curtailing election fraud to the Confederacy was delivered the same week he hosted outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a kindred spirit.
The second of our preliminary post-COVID scenarios features an ascendant China, following more geopolitical implications with the US and Europe.
The brutal treatment of Aleppo and the impotence of the west in the face of it may be just a taste of what’s to come.
The power gap between China and the U.S. seems to close as the corresponding ideological gap widens. While the idea of a new Cold War has been dismissed by policymakers for decades, the possibility of another great power rivalry has resurfaced.
The gap between its stated objectives and the actual outcome is clear in the rise of terrorism and religious extremism in West Asia, Africa and South Asia.
A book review of LOSING CONTROL: THE EMERGING THREATS TO WESTERN PROSPERITY
The West&#039;s antquated and naive view of foreign policy has been smashed by Russia&#039;s invasion of Ukraine.
As the new year begins, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are manning barricades in the central square of Kiev, continuing their month-long demonstrations demanding a path towards freedom from the corrupt Yanukovych dictatorship. Imprisoned ...
The former president's death hung over the G-20 meeting Saturday in Buenos Aires, where President Donald Trump found himself locked in a series of high-stakes encounters with the leaders of Russia, China, Germany and Japan.
Our nation's problems are caused not by a lack of territory but increasingly disjointed cultural identities. There's only one solution.
Ukrainians have voted, and they have overwhelmingly chosen to stay the course on European integration.
$7.5 billion United States-backed plan to stabilize Colombia and thwart its guerrilla movements and drug traffickers shows signs of disarray; European nations balk at donating funds to help Colombia deal with social problems, Latin American leaders fear creeping United States militarism and Pres Andres Pastrana's government is reluctant to promote plan at home or dedicate funds to it; photo (M)
The historic breakdown in Anglo-Ottoman relations is a useful model for evaluating today’s troubled alliance between the United States and Turkey.
From a closed Europe to the China footprint.
The U.S. must make it clear that there will be no support if Kyiv launches a large scale military offensive.
As much as oil shaped the global geopolitics of the 20th century, water has the power to reorder international relations in the current century.
To prevent the onward geopolitical march of China and Russia and the dystopian outcome of a world in which adversary systems have truly global range, the United States and its allies must cultivate a modern-day containment strategy towards our authoritarian challengers.
While military conflicts test investors resolve to stick to their investment plan, history suggests these events have not derailed the long-term growth of financial markets.
... the British spymaster just sloppily revealed his hand to Russia while attempting to implicate it for allegedly conducting “fourth generation espionage” against the UK.
Our opening editorial: Over the next week, Pres. Barack Obama will attend three major summits — of the G20 industrial countries, NATO, and the European Union — hold bilateral meetings with the lead…
Why Russia can't become western and can't stand the West
Russian President Vladimir Putin won his countrys presidential election with 87 per cent of the vote on March 17. It will be his fifth term since he first assumed power in 2000. The six-year term...
For Republicans, energy is a matter of economic growth and geopolitical strength; for many Democrats, it is about climate change. But both parties must tackle US dependence on China.
Japan is choosing to reinforce the international order that the United States helped to create after World War II, according to Japanologist Michael J. Green.
Last week President Obama called Vladimir Putin of Russia to thank him for his cooperation on the Iran nuclear deal. Given current geopolitical tension ...
A renewed public discourse around questions of its meaning, repertoire, purpose and limits will have to be enriched.
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