But Russia’s efforts to control the country have ramped up in recent years, especially since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

By almost universal agreement, the Taiwan Strait has emerged as the most combustible flash point in the world. In recent ...

Many analysts watching the conflict in the Middle East have warned that the present fighting could escalate further. At the moment, such fears are concentrated on the prospect of a war between Iran ...

At the beginning of Putin’s rule, when today’s 20- and 30-year-olds were still at a tender age, Russia was benefiting from ...

To Break the Kremlin’s War Machine, the West Must Exploit the Grievances and Fears of Ordinary Russians ...

When it comes to Iran’s capacity and desire to develop nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom in the West has generally held ...

He could have used his network of proxies to launch an indirect attack against Israel or set off a wave of regional terrorism ...

Since the war began, Putin has allowed many major pillars of the Russian state—the army, Federal Security Service, ...

KATHRYN PAIK is Senior Fellow with the Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and previously ...

From the start of his term as U.S. president, Donald Trump rang the alarm about the return of great-power competition. His administration’s first National Security Strategy emphasized that adversaries ...

A little more than two months after Venezuela’s presidential election, the regime of Nicolás Maduro has yet to release any evidence to support its claim to victory. Instead, Caracas has brutally ...