Over the past two decades, China has transformed from a strategically weak energy power, dependent on imports of oil and gas, into the world leader in clean energy. Today, China produces the most wind ...

Instead, military involvement in domestic law enforcement becomes normalized, power concentrates in the executive, civilian institutions weaken, and civil liberties erode. Democratic institutions ...

The war in Ukraine is, at once, a past and future conflict. On the one hand, Russia’s invasion resembles World War I, with static frontlines, trenches, and vast areas of no mans ...

PETER SLEZKINE is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Russia Program at the Stimson Center. JOSHUA SHIFRINSON is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and a ...

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and ...

Amid a sea of disruptions—territorial threats against Denmark, missed alliance meetings by senior U.S. diplomats, and planned personnel reductions at NATO installations—the Trump administration’s ...

As a result, NATO allies have sent Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars in military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to prevent it from losing the war and collapsing. The Europeans have ...

The army’s “transformation in contact” exercise, carried out this fall through the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center, was a good step in this direction. Although this exercise was not long ...

The sad truth is that the West does not seem willing to listen to the global South. The countries of the global South do not all share the dominant Western perspectives about world order. Stubb ...

DAVID M. LAMPTON is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China ...

Others are more optimistic, arguing that the entire system will go down and that an external opposition figure, perhaps the former Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, will help the country transition ...