Restrictive new visa and immigration policies have made the United States less accessible and less attractive to potential visitors, and Washington’s coercive and transactional dealings with U.S.

This was not the last disquieting example of AI enabling malign actors to conduct information warfare—the manipulation and distribution of information to gain an advantage over an adversary. In August ...

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...

But despite their shared interests, BRICS as a grouping is not ready to seize the moment. Its members—which now include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates—are too divided ...

Among the many issues that helped propel Sanae Takaichi to power as Japan’s first female prime minister this fall, perhaps none is more politically charged or more important to Japan’s long-term ...

When it comes to attempts at regime change, Venezuela is a graveyard of ideas. During Trump’s first administration, the United States imposed punitive economic sanctions on the country’s oil and ...

The shared thread in all these rumors is the idea that a powerful group of party elders with access to insider information—leaders and high-level cadres who have usually stepped back from active ...

Indeed, the difficulty of bringing both wars to an end illustrates the strategic dilemmas facing the United States in managing a small but critical subset of its partners: so-called quasi allies.

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In that scenario, Maduro would emerge as the survivor who bested Trump and showed that American influence in the Western Hemisphere is limited at best. Removing Maduro, on the other hand, would ...

Debates over world trade often conflate two distinct issues. The first is how to expand the efficiencies that occur when international trade is broadly balanced and countries are able to benefit from ...