Purchase Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and ...

The Japan-India-Africa Business Forum, held on February 26, 2025, marked a strategic step in strengthening the India-Japan ...

Israeli forces executed a hostage-rescue operation in Nuseirat, central Gaza. The Israeli operation was widely reported to have utilized ...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of ...

Military strategists and pundits alike often refer to warfare in terms of three domains — namely land, sea, and air. In each of these venues, armed combatants struggle to defeat their adversaries and ...

Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States ...

Bottom Line Chinese and Indian interest in Nepal’s immense hydropower potential has made it a focal point of geopolitical competition. Political instability, bureaucratic red tape, and underdeveloped ...

Bottom Line In February 2023, the Philippines and the United States revived their Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (ECDA). Though signed in 2014, legal and political challenges in the ...

Turkey benefits economically and politically from Assad’s fall, but tensions with the Kurdish-led SDF, Gulf states, Israel, and Iran highlight competing ambitions and risks of instability in Syria’s ...

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Bottom Line Ukraine’s successes in Kherson and Kharkiv were largely a result of the losses it inflicted on the Russian military in the Battle for the Donbas in the spring and early summer. Attrition ...

After a decade of activist policies in the region following the Arab Uprisings, Emirati foreign policy has undergone massive shifts in the past two years. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ...