LISA ANDERSON is James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at Columbia University. She served as Provost and later as President of the American University of Cairo and was Dean of ...

ANDREW J. NATHAN is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He writes on Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and ...

Conflict in the Middle East or along the Red Sea risks disrupting trade corridors or spooking foreign investors. In contrast, the UAE remains tethered to the same set of priorities that have driven ...

LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of the forthcoming book Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions.

Using military force to project strength thus carries both benefits and risks, and whether the tradeoff ultimately works in a president’s favor depends on whether the intervention decisively achieves ...

Unless U.S. President Donald Trump can persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the fighting—an unlikely scenario—Russia will probably try harder to subjugate Ukraine, not because the ...

He not only toppled a dictatorship that had ruled Syria for half a century but also, upon assuming leadership of the country, convinced Western capitals to lift or suspend most of the sanctions ...

Sitting in the shadow of authoritarian China, Taiwan has earned a reputation for its commitment to freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. For 30 years since its first direct ...

Even after a decade of high drama in the People’s Liberation Army, the decision by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to remove Zhang from the PLA’s top governing body, the Central Military Commission (CMC), ...

Last month, the Trump administration announced the start of the second phase of its Gaza peace plan, which the UN Security Council endorsed in November. Phase one, which went into effect last October, ...