If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
Constitutional crisis raises the question whether Islamist parties have a legitimate place in the democratic space Read More
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Foreign powers should condemn Kais Saied’s power grab to halt long-term damage to the nascent democracy. Read More
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First Afghanistan, now Iraq. Seven years after US troops returned to the country to fight ISIS, US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime... Read More
What Biden Can Learn From Trump’s Successes and Failures Read More
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The technological hurdles might be too difficult to overcome, but it's worth trying. Read More
The Biden administration continues its back-and-forth effort to balance the Trump national security team’s strong China policy with its... Read More
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The country’s chaotic governance endangers both Malaysians’ public health and their hard-fought democracy. Read More
Protests may seem to have subsided. But the president's outdated authoritarian tactics will create more instability. Read More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants to help the United States secure Afghanistan after the departure of American... Read More
Nearly twenty years have passed since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001.1 During that interval, the... Read More
At the Bush Center, we're concerned about the challenges to the health of democracies around the world. Populism is on the rise. Media... Read More
As Beijing attempts to tackle some shared world problems,its opaque regime means the benefits are limited. Read More
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As a guest at the G-7 summit in the United Kingdom in June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a special session on “open... Read More
The aftermath of the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise has made apparent the country’s extreme... Read More
The Pegasus Project affair brings back to the headlines Israel’s glorious status as the leader in cyber technology and... Read More
As the author Daniel Deudney explains in an extraordinary new book, “Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the... Read More
Biden may believe that drawing a line under the Afghan war will allow the US to concentrate on more urgent problems. Sadly, he may just have... Read More
Kodak bends the knee for the Chinese Communist Party, whose influence now stretches into America through our own storied companies. Read More
The Tunisian president has proved to be the source of political instability. He has ruled by swerving from threat to emollience and back... Read More
The Milk Tea Alliance defies our typical understanding of a grassroots movement. It is first and foremost virtual, birthed from an innocuous... Read More
Behold, Beirut: our capital and last — still-surviving, ever-besieged — Levantine city. Strolling through its streets and... Read More
The national security law is a direct threat to foreign firms. Read More
The Biden administration is lifting its opposition to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 undersea pipeline, according to a joint US-German... Read More
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans. Read More
BERLIN — Just weeks before a crucial German election, the country’s chancellor, ignoring loud protests from Eastern Europe,... Read More
In this glimpse into the next 19 years, we forecast several significant changes and disruptions in the global structure, which will be... Read More
There are no easy answers for the Biden administration—and perhaps no answers at all involving Beijing. Read More
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Monday suspended parliament indefinitely and fired the country’s defense minister — one... Read More
If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while... Read More
