Turkey’s president has willfully cozied up to Putin. The inevitable consequence is isolation.   Read More

At least 33 Turkish soldiers were  killed in the Syrian province of Idlib today in an escalating confrontation between Russian-backed... Read More

ISTANBUL — The Turkish Army suffered mass casualties in an airstrike in northwest Syria late Thursday, an attack that could... Read More

How the natural environment is a force for instability.  Read More

Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution. Read More

Socialism is no longer a parlor game for academics but a political alternative taken seriously by millennials. Read More

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Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, where the virus emerged, was locked down on 23 January. Since then misinformation and disinformation... Read More

Beijing does not recognise dual citizenship, making life difficult for ethnic Chinese in the diaspora. Read More

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) History is often said to repeat itself or at least to rhyme. Decentralization in Ukraine has been on and... Read More

Despite the potential of a pandemic that could crater the global economy, it’s a relief to know that China’s Communist rulers are... Read More

American elections are decided bigly. They turn on large, oily axes like dramatic conventions or major speeches or sudden surges of momentum.... Read More

There are no easy answers in Syria, but working with Turkey is a possibility we should consider. Read More

This is no time for complacency about just how precarious a once-precious partnership has become. Read More

In its successes and failures, its wealth and dilapidation, the United States infects many of those who visit. Read More

Iran has responded to coronavirus in characteristically counterproductive fashion. Read More

The UK and EU must now work out their future relationship. We asked writers in four EU capitals what their government’s will prioritise Read More

European leaders are flirting with the idea of going it alone—but Washington should be willing to call their bluff.   Read More

The crown jewel of the E.U., its network of open internal borders, has been hit hard by the refugee crisis. The virus could deliver another... Read More

Xi himself has called the epidemic a severe test of Chinese governance. But the lesson-learning, such as it is, is likely to consist of a... Read More

This week’s court ruling disqualifying ousted leader Evo Morales from pursuing a Senate seat has brought last year’s events in... Read More

There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, millions of... Read More

By recycling conspiracy theories and distorted versions of the past, the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders only prolong their unresolved... Read More

The fact that African opposition parties increasingly turn to the courts when they lose elections indicates that perceptions of judicial... Read More

The recent Munich Security Conference had no South American speakers, but dealt with critical issues for the region.   Read More