The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the ...

The view that the Chinese leadership was desperate to negotiate a trade deal, to avoid economic pain that could destabilize ...

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

The perception that China likely does not face an existential threat from the United States has had a stabilizing effect on ...

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 ...

SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

If the warring sides continue to refuse a cease-fire or peace talks, that could yield a situation similar to what has ...

In a remarkably short time, the second Trump administration has upended many of the precepts that have guided international ...

But as the United States sat complacently in the top position, trusting that the strength of the free market would keep it there, China was carefully setting itself up as a challenger. Beijing poured ...

Trump has also made clear that he regards ending the war in Ukraine as a crucial goal for his presidency and that in bringing ...