The evidence is clear. Donald Trump’s presidency has eroded America’s soft power. Only 30 percent of people recently polled by Gallup in 134 countries held a...
In 2008, when the United States’ National Intelligence Council published its Global Trends 2025 report, a key prediction was tighter energy competition....
Last week, Kurds in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence for the country’s Kurdistan Region. With some 30 million Kurds divided among...
The United States has never had a president like Donald Trump. With a narcissistic personality and a short attention span, and lacking experience in world...
A series of episodes in recent years – including Russia’s cyber interventions to skew the United States’ 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump, the...
In early November, U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly contacted Russian President Vladimir Putin personally to warn against cyberattacks aimed at the...
During his campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump questioned the alliances and institutions that undergird the liberal world order, but he spelled out...
In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites. The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump’s unexpected capture of the...
A trend toward greater authoritarianism seems to be spreading worldwide. Vladimir Putin has successfully used nationalism to tighten his control over Russia...