In just a few days’ time, U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be holding a three-way summit on the sidelines of next week’s Asia-Pacific ...

In recent decades, however, governments’ commitment to the cause of peace has weakened. Millions of people took to the streets in hundreds of cities to oppose the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, ...

These innovations are making it easier and cheaper to exchange currencies directly for one another rather than using the dollar as an intermediary currency. But for all the new opportunities these ...

Kennedy hoped that poverty in Latin America would visibly recede within a couple of years of USAID’s creation, as he was understandably worried that Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s Marxist ...

Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 ...

Foreign governments have tried to influence the United States since its founding. President George Washington warned in his Farewell Address that “foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of ...

Just a few years ago, U.S. President Joe Biden caused a stir when he confirmed publicly that his administration would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by China—a divergence from the ...

The world’s fertility crisis is more severe than is commonly understood. Last year, humanity’s total fertility level dropped below what demographers call the replacement rate—that is, the average ...

According to reports by the United Nations and the Global Terrorism Index, Africa is the overwhelming center of terrorist activity today. The African continent accounts for more than 50 percent of all ...

China’s worldview treats development as equivalent to capital accumulation and sees productivity as determined by the control and deployment of technology. It posits that the growth of the service ...

For many, Morgenthau’s contributions begin and end with his identification of power as the key determinant of state behavior. But this reading misses one of his core observations: that even if humans ...