In the wake of the US military intervention in Venezuela and Donald Trump’s repeated threats towards Greenland, a wave of pessimism has swept the western world. For countries wedded to a rules-based ...

Screenshot of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos Photo: World Economic Forum.

Pakistan’s renewed relevance in great power politics in 2025 came as the military consolidated its power and further eroded ...

Russia is reeling from the capture of Nicolás Maduro, a key Kremlin ally, but in Moscow, President Donald Trump’s brazen incursion into Venezuela also represents a return to great-power politics — a ...

The speech by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos was an aggressive tirade in favor of European great-power politics under German leadership. Barely concealed ...

As Arctic ice retreats, new sea lanes are opening that allow ships to move between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic. These routes can cut travel time by weeks, reduce fuel costs, and ...

The removal of Nicolas Maduro marks the arrival of a Trumpian geopolitical era defined by blunt realism. Advocates of the green transition would do best to realize that. In the aftermath of Nicolas ...

The churn of great-power politics shapes the world and touches, for good or ill, the lives of people everywhere. Wars among great powers have killed millions of people; victorious great powers have ...