China has quietly established authority over whether and how the United States will implement national security measures such as export controls. Stylistic changes in how the United States conducts ...

In March, Trump hosted 12 Latin American leaders at a Florida country club for the first summit of the “Shield of the Americas,” a new, U.S.-led regional security initiative to counter drug cartels ...

MATTHEW SHARP is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked on nuclear issues at the State Department and at ...

For the Middle East, the war in Iran has been another tough lesson in how divisions and competition can yield brutal conflict. But for most of the world, the war has been a lesson in something else: ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Beijing this week, it will be a modern standoff with the unmistakable overtones of single combat. Summits are often less ...

Over the course of a four-day tour, he admired the Gulf capitals’ “gleaming marvels,” cheered on their ambitious modernization plans, and showcased over $3 trillion in pledged Gulf investment and ...

Over the course of a four-day tour, he admired the Gulf capitals’ “gleaming marvels,” cheered on their ambitious modernization plans, and showcased over $3 trillion in pledged Gulf investment and ...

Washington’s war with Iran and the redeployment of U.S. defenses from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East have further raised concern that China could seize the island without having to fear a U.S.

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...

Dueling blockades have kept 20 percent of the global oil supply, 20 percent of the global supply of liquefied natural gas, and critical commodities such as helium, aluminum, and urea trapped inside ...

For decades, scholars and politicians have marveled at the fact that democracies do not fight one another. “The absence of war between democracies comes as close as anything we have to an empirical ...