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Western leaders are deeply reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: we are already enmeshed in a new Cold War. More precisely, the... Read More

Exploring Israel's complex challenges, from military actions to diplomatic tensions, hostage crises, and domestic instability, amid hopes... Read More

How a long-term, durable U.S.-Saudi partnership can serve as a shock absorber during a time of geopolitical uncertainty. Read More

Tehran upped the ante and scored a strategic success with its attack. Israel also achieved its outcomes. The Middle East game has become more... Read More

Strengthened Western resolve to roll back Moscow’s invasion is beginning to coincide more strongly with the interests of the... Read More

Conservative leaders from across Europe met in Brussels, but we know very little about this network. A new consortium has been launched to... Read More

We must take seriously the opportunities for collaboration presented by countries like Ecuador, El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay, the... Read More

Total military spending by nations reached a record high of $2.443 trillion in 2023, according to a new report released Monday by... Read More

Washington’s support for Ukraine should not dispel a sense of urgency among EU countries, Ukraine and its allies warn.   Read More

After six months of trading fire, we can observe three distinct stages of the fighting between Israel and the Iranian proxy... Read More

It is only now, almost 16 years since Obama first entered the White House with the private determination to end Iran’s “death to... Read More

Walter Russell Mead testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on modernizing alliances in the Indo-Pacific.   Read More

A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China. Read More

Alliance countries need better understanding of the risks to their undersea infrastructure, and improved signalling to deter Russian... Read More

The U.S. government is making itself felt in Orthodox internal politics.   Read More

Rep. Summer Lee, a freshman Democrat who faces a primary challenge Tuesday from an opponent who has characterized her as extreme on foreign... Read More

Examining the political risks of labeling genocide, especially regarding the impending UN resolution on Srebrenica, stressing the need for... Read More

All eyes are on America's college campuses as simmering tensions over the Israel-Hamas war boil over into outright... Read More

Most of the troops are stationed at a U.S. airbase that is less than a decade old and is valued at $110 million and costs about $1 million a... Read More

For years, to avoid the confusion between Georgia the country, and Georgia the U.S. state, international media referred to the former as a... Read More

India will gradually increase in power, but its journey toward true great power capabilities is likely to be long and arduous.   Read More

The United States is engaged in its first major naval combat since World War II, according to the commander overseeing U.S. naval... Read More

Biden appears to be presiding over a crisis in US moral leadership while Trump echoes Reagan’s past call to ‘make America great... Read More

Less than two months after rattling NATO allies by saying that he would encourage Russia “to do whatever the hell they... Read More

Let one old man deal with two others.   Read More

We don’t need psychoanalysis or self-serving cheerleading about how ‘indispensable’ America is. We need sober... Read More

At an economic forum last week in Shanghai, a senior Chinese government adviser named Liu Yuanchun, who is also the president of the Shanghai... Read More

Numerous states recently passed laws prohibiting foreign entities’ ownership of American farmland, citing concerns about CCP... Read More

As long as the Russian imperial state exists in its current form, the threat it poses to Europe won’t go away.   Read More

After weeks of politicking the Biden White House can breathe a sigh of relief, as an aid package that includes $60 billion in funding for... Read More

It’s not too late, because it’s never too late. No outcomes are ever preordained, nothing is ever over, and you can always affect... Read More

After two years of being assured that the U.S. government has exquisite oversight on aid provided to Ukraine, last week Sens. J.D.... Read More

Blankets, tents, Palestinian flags, signs, and scores of tired students were strewn across the South Lawn of the university's Manhattan... Read More

In the wake of the Iranian strikes on Israel, some anti-war activists are wringing their hands, anxious to condemn anyone who... Read More

Recently, I was asked to moderate a panel with a battery of Jewish luminaries. A member of the audience asked a question, confessing that... Read More

Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the Middle East has been rocked by mass protests. Egyptians have demonstrated in solidarity... Read More

Turkey’s newly strengthened relationship with Somalia raises the prospect of Ankara’s further involvement in Indian Ocean... Read More

Exploring the distinction between Islamophobia and antisemitism, emphasizing the need to confront hate without conflating distinct forms of... Read More

The belated US aid package should banish both gloom and complacency   Read More

Ataboo has broken in Europe. Only a few months ago, it would have been inconceivable for European leaders to propose sending European troops... Read More

China is doubling down on manufacturing exports to offset the challenges posed by a sluggish property market and meet the... Read More

In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for... Read More

If there was one thing that everyone at this year’s National Conservatism conference could agree on, it was that European civilisation... Read More

Haiti is in crisis — one that will soon leave millions of people on the brink of starvation.    Read More