The power dynamic between Beijing and Moscow has switched dramatically.
Why Europe’s biggest economy can’t get the immigrants it desperately needs.
A historic agreement in the Balkans still needs intervention by the United States and Europe.
There is evidence the Russian president is not ignorant of the security benefits of arms control.
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David Petraeus, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lee Hsi-min, and eight other experts on how to avoid a war over Taiwan—or anywhere else.
How India’s prime minister dismantled the world’s largest democratic experiment.
Twenty years on, the war still shapes policy—mostly for the worse.
Moscow is grasping for meaning in a meaningless invasion.
The peace plan is a big deal—and it’s no accident that China brokered it.
Front-line officers are desperate for a less glamorous weapon: the infantry fighting vehicle.
Precolonial kingdoms challenge our beliefs about people power and monarchies.
The depiction of war in “All Quiet on the Western Front” has put it far out of step with its home country.
Online streaming is more representative of the country’s diversity but is becoming a double-edged sword.
Weijian Shan’s new book is notable mostly for what it leaves out.
Russia’s war can only be understood as a bloody post-imperial conflict.
Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.
Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?
The dirty secret of the Russian military is that long-conquered subjects are the Kremlin’s cannon fodder.
India and Israel have strengthened their defense ties in recent years—but a new book makes the relationship sound more sinister than it is.
The abrupt end of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and the ongoing proceedings in Colombia show how the process doesn’t always serve the victims.
Open-source investigations were once potent journalistic tools, but in Ukraine, they’re being used on the battlefield.
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The power dynamic between Beijing and Moscow has switched dramatically.
Beijing’s aerospace future is uniquely dependent on Western companies. U.S. and EU trade sanctions could bring its indigenous aviation sector to a halt.
The pandemic’s outbreak brought rare reporting freedoms.
In 1947, the United States sacrificed for the sake of a starving Europe.
