Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the unified, American-led response of the West brought us back to explicit strategic competition. Unlike the proxy wars of earlier years, this was not ...

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

Democracy and Development in Mongolia Since ... For most of the Cold War, Mongolia was essentially a Soviet client state, at least until the rise of Gorbachev and the “Sinatra doctrine ...

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was confronting North Korea-sympathizing politicians intent on destroying South Korea’s ...

The slow, seemingly piecemeal march of American dictatorship is trampling colleges and law firms and coming for the rest of ...

Bernie Sanders denounces conservative politicians as authoritarian, yet he has repeatedly praised Communist leaders like ...

The United States is not in a cold war with China, and that’s precisely the problem. Unlike the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party has no interest in a stable, rules-based standoff. The CCP is ...