Israel’s recognition of Somaliland highlights how regional competition over the statelet is fusing conflict zones in the Middle East and Horn of Africa.

President Trump’s tariffs aren’t just a one-off episode of economic nationalism – they are evidence that the post-war liberal international order is giving way to something new.

The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.

China’s surge past the $1 trillion R&D mark confirms that the era of Western technological monopoly is over.

The Iran war has become the organizing conflict of Middle East geopolitics: American and Israeli strikes, Iranian retaliation by drone and proxy, and a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz that keeps ...

There is no doubt that US sanctions will ramp up Iran’s economic pain. Far less certain is that they’ll create the diplomatic ...

If the non-proliferation regime is to survive its present crisis, credible non-nuclear middle powers must move from supporting participants to agenda-setters.

Brazil’s election is not just a referendum on Lula or Bolsonaro. It is a referendum on whether Latin America can remain strategically autonomous in a world increasingly divided between competing ...

Tokyo and Washington face diminishing returns in trying to prop up the value of the yen; a Brookings paper examines long-term shifts in the Treasury market; the geopolitical impact of floods in Nepal; ...

China balancing act tests whether friend-shoring can remain effective when excluded entities can relocate inside the trusted ...

Brazil’s election is not just a referendum on Lula or Bolsonaro. It is a referendum on whether Latin America can remain ...

Russia’s Arctic buildup is a five-dimensional threat. Countering it means right-sizing Russia — neither paranoia nor ...