After Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, NATO members felt a renewed sense of purpose: deter Putin. Trump’s anti-NATO, pro-Russia talk is thus an existential threat to this old transatlantic alliance.
It will be hard and complicated to replace Venezuela’s heavy sour crude.
On February 11 a Syrian ceasefire was signed in Munich. Few are optimistic it will hold. Why? Because, argues one Middle Eastern scholar, world leaders are ignoring key realities.
Why there’s a slender – a very slender – chance for working out a settlement at upcoming talks in New York.
Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine wasn’t built over just a few months in 2021. Putin and high-level Russia government staff have been trash-talking Ukraine for more than a decade.
Three suicide bombers killed 42 at Turkey’s busiest airport June 28. A scholar explains how Turkey’s foreign policy blunders have made the country such a target for terrorist attacks.
A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
The setting was grand, so too was the plan. But behind the peace plan put forward by China and welcomed by Russia, is the question, what do both nations seek?
Thousands were killed in 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Yet military generals were slow to agree to pause in civil war fighting, and continued airstrikes.
The Biden administration is courting Indian leader Narendra Modi in part to deter China’s rise. But India’s decline in democracy could complicate relations.
