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France is reeling from a “massive” and “co-ordinated” sabotage attack on the country’s high-speed... Read More

Over the past few weeks, an all-out conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has begun to appear more likely.  Read More

The world will take time to respond, but the challenge to freedom of navigation will result in its enemies’ defeat.   Read More

The results from India's massive, multi-month election are in, and the verdict is a somewhat-constricted mandate for sitting Prime... Read More

The Resolution from the Third Plenum focused primarily on economic reform but reinforced the Party’s existing strategy rather than... Read More

For the span of a generation, Venezuela’s opposition has toiled fitfully and, at times, ineffectually to claw back power from an... Read More

Despite the persecution, the Maduro regime has not stopped the opposition's campaign, which has slightly increased the hope of... Read More

Europe cannot limit itself to its own backyard. Facing a global Chinese-Russian threat, it would be wise to raise its support for the US and... Read More

Tensions between China and the Philippines have escalated dramatically in recent months around Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged... Read More

U.S. envisions India as democratic counterweight to China but Asian powers are moving toward more economic cooperation and less strategic... Read More

India remains concerned with China above all. Western partners such as the US and the EU are much more useful to New Delhi than is Moscow Read More

Senior figures in Israel's government have said it is closing in on its war aims of defeating Hamas militarily and the return of hostages... Read More

The meeting today encapsulates the challenges the vice president faces in maintaining a fragile Democratic coalition divided over Israel's... Read More

‘Incoming!” “Double incoming!” Israelis are used to receiving multiple alerts of rocket, drone, and other attacks,... Read More

The United States is in a global competition with other nations for leadership in critical and emerging technologies.  To succeed, we... Read More

Trains to and from Paris, including the international Eurostar service, were hit by what authorities called a “massive attack aimed at... Read More

Following a tense spring, it appears that Armenian and Azerbaijani officials are making progress on a peace agreement. Earlier this month,... Read More

Force has been an ineffective tool for resolving Red Sea unrest, but it may preclude other solutions.   Read More

Keir Starmer has said he wants a broad new security agreement with the EU. It could end up being very broad indeed. Read More

The potential for increased cooperation between India and the ASEAN states is high.   Read More

Last year, the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo turned 30.  Read More

Despite being the most popular politician in Venezuela, María Corina Machado has been banned from standing in this weekend’s... Read More

In September 2022, after both the invasion of Ukraine and a military takeover in Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with Russian... Read More

From Ukraine to Gaza to the South China Sea, the world is littered with crises. International cooperation is paralyzed by diplomatic rivalry;... Read More

Since the end of World War II, debates about American foreign policy have more often been within the two major parties than between them. Read More

There are key lessons to be drawn about US foreign policy from the last four years. It’s important they’re correctly... Read More

Harris and Trump should drop Biden’s disastrous grandiosity.   Read More

The prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency and, in particular, his recent pick of JD Vance as vice-presidential candidate have further... Read More

As economic concerns dominate American voters’ priorities, Trump’s austere approach to the Ukraine conflict might resonate more... Read More

It’s early days, but the signs are strong that Taiwan’s new government will insist on much more of a porcupine strategy for... Read More

PM blasts Tehran as driving force behind turmoil, denounces anti-Israel protesters, defends conduct of war; some hostage relatives removed... Read More

The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress, his appearance caused... Read More

On May 31, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a three-phase proposal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. He called, first, for a temporary... Read More

Donald Trump’s recent brush with death at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has refocused attention on the vulnerability of current and... Read More

The Irish have always produced more trouble than they can consume. This may be why so many of them are so eloquent on the subject. Yeats on... Read More

Roll up, roll up … the great Tory beauty parade is about to begin. Over the next three months, the U.K. Conservatives will elect... Read More

The Irish elites are inflaming mass unrest with their refusal to rethink their asylum policy. Read More

Tajikistan remains the most hostile Central Asian government to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.   Read More

The United States has hit a wall in Ukraine. President Joe Biden’s incrementalist approach is not working. Instead, it has led to a... Read More

A second Trump presidency could transform the American economy while bolstering Israel's regional ties through expanded diplomacy. However,... Read More

Japan, China, S Korea and Taiwan could all lose more than they gain under a tariff-prone Trump 2.0 administration   Read More

Protect. Defend. Save. Three words that define the US Coast Guard’s missions and are central to its ethos statement. For the antithesis... Read More

In recent and upcoming elections, similar voting patterns are manifesting themselves in three major Western democracies.    Read More

The Labour Party and Keir Starmer’s landslide election victory on July 4th simply confirmed the inevitable. Starmer’s... Read More

This Sunday, Venezuela’s dictatorial Bolivarian regime will face the most vigorous challenge yet to its quarter-century rule. President... Read More