Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

The move, which followed steps taken in the first Trump administration to curtail China’s access to cutting-edge ...

Coercion could backfire. Although it will not always be China that benefits—many Asian countries hedge beyond the great ...

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. She is the former NATO Deputy ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

How to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing Israeli war on Gaza, the plight of Palestinians in the occupied ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

In short, the Trump administration believes it has what game theorists call escalation dominance over China and any other economy with which it has a bilateral trade deficit. Escalation dominance, in ...