On the one hand, delegations from each country met in person last weekend for the first time in a decade, and they negotiated through the night in hopes of forging a lasting peace settlement. The ...

In 1969, with the Cultural Revolution raging at home and tensions rising abroad, Chinese leader Mao Zedong instructed four elder military leaders to study the relationships between China and the world ...

Policymakers must work with frontier AI labs to establish reporting requirements for security incidents similar to the one that Anthropic revealed in 2025. Effective disclosure will require consistent ...

On Monday, six weeks into its war with Iran, the United States imposed a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. According to conventional wisdom, the war has made Tehran realize that its control of ...

Lessons from Hungary for pro-democracy movements worldwide.

The political scientist Graham Allison famously warned that the two countries could fall into what he called “the Thucydides trap,” based on the idea that war is likely when a rising state threatens ...

Traditionally, alliances were forged as highly contingent, time-bound partnerships, but after World War II, the United States went about establishing permanent ones, including NATO and bilateral ...

Since the beginning of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a contradictory approach to the war in Ukraine and how it should end. In September 2025, Trump said that Ukrainians should ...

The performance should give pause to U.S. adversaries that have been watching the war in Iran unfold. Massive volleys of long-range drones and ballistic missiles are a preferred offensive tool of ...

For decades, Europe assumed that its U.S. ally would come to its defense if the continent faced a direct attack from its neighbor to the east. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s hostility toward Europe ...

For now, Washington seems to care far more about the fortunes of Venezuela’s economy, notably its oil industry, than those of its democracy. Yet those priorities have placed Venezuela in a paradoxical ...

BÁLINT MADLOVICS is a Junior Visiting Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University in Budapest. BÁLINT MAGYAR is former Minister of Education of Hungary and a Senior Visiting ...