By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, the government has crossed the line that separates Turkey’s competitive ...

Still, the fact that states feel obliged to invoke the norm against territorial conquest even as they violate it indicates that there is life in the norm yet. Russian President Vladimir Putin argued ...

In 2020, the Office of Naval Intelligence told Congress that Chinese naval ships are now “in many cases comparable” to their ...

But the pause in U.S. aid served as a dramatic wake-up call: the most crucial factor in determining how long and how ...

Iran has grappled with a series of setbacks. Hamas and Hezbollah, Tehran’s long-standing nonstate regional allies, have been ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he ...

Some U.S. national security experts have taken to calling this group “the axis of upheaval” or “the axis of autocracy,” ...

They believe these states do not do enough to defend themselves and may not even share American values. On the other hand, ...

In a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah in February, U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the ...

But its ability to deliver long-term growth and improve Americans’ quality of life hinges on whether it can build at scale.

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...