NIKITA LALWANI is a Fellow at the RAND Corporation and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International ...

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

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

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. She is the former NATO Deputy ...

How to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.

In short, the Trump administration believes it has what game theorists call escalation dominance over China and any other ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

But even if Hamas and Israel hammer out a new, short-term agreement to halt hostilities, Gaza is unlikely to see real peace any time soon. Since the horrific October 7 massacre, which claimed the ...

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 ...

ISMET FATIH CANCAR was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies from 2024 to 2025 and an Adviser to the Minister of Security of Bosnia and ...