In a rapidly evolving world where Washington might not have the same sway it used to, how should the US best position itself?

The 12-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025 exposed critical weaknesses in the Islamic Republic’s military, strategic ...

In recent decades, the Gulf states, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, have adopted a distinct economic and political model that ...

This week, we are looking further south along NATO’s eastern flank at Romania.

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

Saeid Golka r is the UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, ...

Since the 2011 uprising and subsequent civil war, Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities have borne heavy costs amid threats ...

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Kajjo is a Washington-based journalist and researcher specializing in Kurdish politics, Islamic militancy, and Syrian affairs ...

Eusebiu Slavitescu is a transatlantic relations and European defense analyst who has held various positions at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2020, she was appointed by then-Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as part of NATO’s Reflection Group, a working group of ten high-level experts that ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...