Moscow wants to have it both ways on the Montreux Convention, which governs naval passage through the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and the... Read More

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India's parliamentary elections, now underway, will show how social media is affecting Indian society and government. Read More

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A year ago, China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in a closely choreographed series of photo-ops... Read More

Beijing's financial and military inroads into Europe are calling into question America's traditional assumptions about Transatlantic... Read More

New ECFR/YouGov research reveals huge fluidity in current voting intentions: 70 percent of Europeans certain to vote are yet to make their... Read More

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Ukraine can be proud of its orderly transition. Read More

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The United States has decided to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the... Read More

Once again, a president has usurped war powers belonging to Congress, with disastrous results. Read More

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By seeking to cut Iranian exports to zero, the U.S. president is taking a major economic and political risk. Read More

How the administration will fundamentally damage U.S. national interests for years to come. Read More

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Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water. Read More

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There were many chances to stop the Easter Sunday attacks. The government missed them all. Read More

Enter Xu Zhangrun. A fifty-six-year-old professor of constitutional law at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, Xu is well known in... Read More

How Washington can beat Beijing's global influence campaign. Read More

Ahead of Spain's election, PM Sánchez's challenger Pablo Casado has moved his conservative party sharply to the right. Read More

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Religion goes on, whether or not people honor its traditions. Read More

The independent pollster Levada Tsentr regularly tests Russians' attitudes toward former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and it recently... Read More

Politicians and police have done little to halt the persecution of religious minorities, says Tasnim Nazeer, a journalist and UPF ambassador... Read More

A repeat of the Egyptian scenario is possible for both Algeria and Sudan. Read More

Opinion Please, put away those onion-dome-on-the-White-House graphics and abandon those excitable claims of Trump as a Russian agent. Read More

Such a dastardly deed could have been hatched only through a deep-rooted conspiracy. Read More

The explosions in Sri Lanka on Sunday, which killed more than 200 people, were the deadliest violence in the country since its civil war... Read More

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce Monday that every country must stop importing Iranian oil or face U.S. sanctions. Read More

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