By many outward appearances, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power is stronger than ever. The country has ...

Both Israel’s attack and Iran’s response were unexpected. Iran, in particular, has a long history of muted responses to ...

KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Interim Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts ...

What we lose when languages die.

These and other events have fueled the claim that China is stagnating, if not in permanent decline. Some scholars now argue ...

Their convergence is creating a new axis of upheaval—a development that is fundamentally altering the geopolitical landscape.

International humanitarian law, also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict, is supposed to spare civilians ...

Arab leaders, after all, are among the world’s most experienced practitioners of realpolitik, and they have a record of ...

Two books chart the tumult in Cuba and the Caribbean in the last two centuries, highlighting how race shapes the region’s ...

Only a few months ago, it would have been inconceivable for European leaders to propose sending European troops to Ukraine.

In this work of creative nonfiction, Jacobsen urges readers to fear a nuclear war, describing in graphic detail the ...

States are born and disappear; great powers swell, shrink, and vanish. In 1910, roughly 80 percent of the planet belonged to ...