Theory

European leaders have reassessed Russia’s intentions and are balancing against the threat that Putin poses to the territorial status quo. 

In two new books, Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama try to cure the patient.

Russia, the United States, and the European Union are each suffering from resulting disasters.

Boris Johnson’s government is partnering with an authoritarian regime in a legally questionable effort to make Britain’s asylum-seeker problem disappear.

The Serbian president’s anti-Western propaganda is coming back to haunt him.

As China’s economic miracle fades, its leaders may become more inclined to take risks.

Russia’s war marks the definitive end of America’s unipolar moment and returns the world to a state best explained by realism.

The Pentagon is scrambling to deter China while adjusting to war in Europe—but does its new approach amount to more than just rhetoric?

The left keeps losing because it has failed to promote equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes.

Hungary’s prime minister will likely win a fourth consecutive election with an original political formula.

Turkey’s president is seizing on Europe’s crisis to establish his own country’s independent power.

Conflict resolution isn’t just for woolly-headed idealists.

Of all the democracies that emerged in the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has suffered the most from Russian interference.

Until the Tokayev regime shows remorse for its brutal crackdown, the country’s reforms won’t bring progress.

If everybody is responsible for countering digital authoritarianism, no one is responsible.

The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.

Central Asia is about to receive its first dynastic family.

A consideration of which theories have been vindicated—and which have fallen flat.

A new regional alliance is undermining Bahrain’s stability at home.

For the Kremlin, NATO’s 1999 war against Serbia is the West’s original sin—and a humiliating affront that Russia must avenge.