In a remarkably short time, the second Trump administration has upended many of the precepts that have guided international ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...

It is the stability of the balance.” Schelling concluded that two nuclear powers can achieve a stable balance only “when ...

The U.S. dollar has been the dominant currency in global trade and finance for more than seven decades. Over that time, ...

In his first term, Trump expanded Russian sanctions and shipped some arms to Ukraine, but he also made overtures of friendship to Putin, leaving both U.S. allies and adversaries uncertain about ...

Only a major drive to rebuild the arsenal of democracy can deter China from taking Taiwan through force or other countries ...

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending ...

You should have never started it.” As cameras rolled during an explosive press conference in the Oval Office in February, U.S. President Donald Trump used these words to blame Volodymyr Zelensky, the ...