Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of ...

In struggling democracies around the world, small cliques of politicians, business elites, and politicians with business ...

Unfortunately for Big Tech, such a war may be about to erupt. The Trump administration’s evident contempt for Europe may not ...

To prevent its findings from being blocked or watered down by the defense department’s bureaucracy, ONA was instructed to ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

During Trump’s first administration, these goals were largely aspirational. He and his officials frequently invoked the ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

Trump’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vice President JD Vance’s public attacks on the domestic policies of ...

In his first term, Trump expanded Russian sanctions and shipped some arms to Ukraine, but he also made overtures of ...

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

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

TATIANA STANOVAYA is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and the Founder and CEO of the political analysis ...