A severe typhoon ravaged Myanmar last September, killing hundreds and flooding many areas, and a devastating 7.7-magnitude ...

RADHA IYENGAR PLUMB is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Perry World House and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton ...

But the war also changed Russia itself far more than most outsiders grasp. No cease-fire, not even one brokered by a U.S.

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

How to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies ...

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

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

But even if Hamas and Israel hammer out a new, short-term agreement to halt hostilities, Gaza is unlikely to see real peace ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has largely been expected to follow one of two foreign policy paths: preserve the country’s position as the leader of the liberal international order ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

The U.S. dollar has been the dominant currency in global trade and finance for more than seven decades. Over that time, little has ever truly threatened its position. Global economic systems operate ...