Now, the war in Ukraine has reached an apparent stasis. Russia continues to take small parcels of territory along the eastern front, but only by incurring unsustainably high casualties. The two ...

The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria shattered the illusion that stability in the Middle East can be sustained through ...

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HAL BRANDS is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced ...

In many ways, Donald Trump’s election to a second term as U.S. president is a story of economic dissatisfaction. For the ...

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In addition, Israel has carried out the largest airstrikes it has ever launched against Iran, reportedly weakening the ...

Delving beneath the disappointments and complexities of national politics, three new books illuminate the dynamism of urban life in the Americas.

In this short, pained meditation, Shehadeh, a renowned Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, puzzles over the conflict that has defined his life.

In this erudite and intelligent book, Zeghal, a historian, aims to reframe debates about the relationship between religion and the state in the Muslim world.

Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi’s domestic and geopolitical strategy for the region.

Sanger, a veteran reporter, tells a familiar story about how the hopeful era that followed the Cold War gave way to renewed great-power competition.