More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

Why the competition is here to stay.

The best way to reverse this dynamic and achieve a substantial reduction in military activities around Taiwan is for both Washington and Beijing to show greater respect for each other’s core positions ...

But for most of its 16-year history, the BRICS has not positioned itself in opposition to the United States and its allies. Several BRICS members have even been close U.S. partners. Washington has ...

Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He was Director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 to 2023 and previously served as a member of the Senior Analytic Service in the ...

According to this logic, African countries would be more likely to attract investment and trade opportunities in a system less concerned about issues of democracy and good governance. But Trump’s ...

Among the many aims of the October 8 ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, flooding Gaza with humanitarian assistance ought to be one of the most achievable. According to U.S. President Donald ...

MARVIN PARK is Senior Vice President at American Global Strategies. He served as Director for Taiwan Affairs on the National Security Council from 2023 to 2024 and as U.S. Naval Attaché at the ...

She worked at Russia’s central bank until early 2022. To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

Among the many aims of the October 8 cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, flooding Gaza with humanitarian assistance ought to be one of the most achievable. According to U.S. President Donald ...

She served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental ...