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Ukraine burns and the Middle East simmers, but the Western Pacific appears relatively placid. There hasn’t been a major crisis in US-China relations...
Don’t let the paltry damage caused by Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel last weekend fool you. The Iranians intended to cause widespread...
President Joe Biden’s Middle East policy hangs in the balance. Negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza have reached a critical stage. Attacks by the...
The U.S. alliance system: there’s never been anything quite like it. Ancient Athens helmed the Delian League. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck...
One of President Joe Biden’s top achievements has been his coalition-building prowess in the Indo-Pacific. The US has strengthened and stitched...
The Houthis are sinking ships and killing sailors. China is waging a persistent campaign to make the South China Sea its own private lake. Russia is...
It’s one of the classic lines in America cinema. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are cornered by a posse of...
As former President Donald Trump rolls toward the Republican nomination, countries everywhere are preparing for what a Trump restoration might mean....
“How much evil we must do in order to do good,” the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1946. “This, I think, is a very succinct statement of...
The post-Cold War era began, in the early 1990s, with soaring visions of global peace. It is ending, three decades later, with surging risks of global...
Amid cascading crises — a stalemated war in Ukraine, a febrile and violent Middle East, a clash for primacy with China — it is easy to despair for...
This article is a pre-release from the Winter 2024 print issue of FP. The full issue will be available on Jan. 3, 2024. This article is a pre-release...
There hasn’t been much holiday cheer for Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy left Washington last week without any new US aid for his embattled...
War is hell, so countries — democracies especially — are naturally inclined to seek ways to avoid its horrors. Witness the hope that powerful...
There are many paths to conflict in the Western Pacific. In my last column, I outlined how China could precipitate a clash by getting tougher with...
Every presidency is an evolution because every presidency subjects the ideas that a leader brings into office to the test of global affairs. Nearly...
The war between Israel and Hamas is bad, but it could get much worse. More so than any Arab-Israeli crisis since 1973, this conflict has the potential...
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“My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan wrote in a January memo to officers in the Air Mobility Command. The...