If the US abandons New START, say goodbye to that comfortable feeling we once enjoyed of relative freedom from an imminent nuclear holocaust.

For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that direct attempts at regime change by the United States have ended in disaster. And for good reason. In Afghanistan, the very same Taliban ...

The State Partnership Program began as a cautious post-Cold War experiment and has evolved into one of the most enduring and ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO ...

With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma.

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela ...

It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

In December 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Sergey Krikalev found out from orbit, still living aboard Mir with no clear return date and an identity tied to a country that had vanished. This is ...

President Trump's actions in Venezuela also are causing unease in Western nations and giving the Kremlin fresh talking points ...

Even if it emerges victorious in Ukraine, Russia can still sow the seeds of a future war of expansion in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...