Somalia’s president says entrenched elites are blocking the path toward universal suffrage and insisting on an indirect electoral system that maintains their power.

In response to China’s rise, New Delhi casts off anti-Western baggage.

Biden needs to show that Washington treats the alliance seriously when Moon visits.

Actually, big isn’t best.

Voters choose independent candidates to draft a new constitution.

Companies linked to the Wagner group are snapping up oil and gas leases—with an eye to pumping influence, not oil.

Talk about sending ground troops to definitively defeat Hamas is nothing more than an idle threat.

New reports detail just how imperiled the global news media is—and the dangers to democracy along with it.

Female economists are rising to the top—everywhere but the U.N.

The Biden administration can stop multinational companies, criminals, and kleptocrats from siphoning off Africa’s wealth.

The possibilities are great, but the politics are risky.

The British KGB double agent was a forerunner of today’s radicalized Western jihadis.

The amateur painter still shows an eye for spin.

Rocket debris, ‘space junk,’ and resource competition require new space diplomacy.

Managing rifts in alliances should be built into strategic planning.

A threat to his rule has fizzled since the shooting began.

Biden must act now to protect the energy system from the rising threat of cyberattacks and natural disasters.

The new U.S. president wants to help, but he may not be prepared to pay the price.

For Israelis and Palestinians, ethnic violence isn't a temporary problem. It’s a lasting identity.

If Palestinians have no hope of a capital in East Jerusalem, Israelis will have little hope of normality.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

International relations theorists once explored racism. What has the field lost by giving that up?

Tangled questions of Asian identity need answers that aren’t defined by U.S. terminology alone.

Other countries offer good lessons for acknowledging and redressing past wrongs.