As the lines become blurred between real and fake information, there is a growing possibility that such deepfakes could infect high-stakes national security decisions, including on nuclear weapons. If ...

Trump, unlike his predecessors, seemed to admire Erdogan’s brand of illiberalism and his skillful geopolitical balancing, repeatedly calling him “a friend” and “a very strong leader.” Turkish ...

A basic premise unites most foreign policy thinking: power begets security. Because no global police force can respond in times of trouble, states must accumulate power to ensure their safety. They ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran serves as a perfect illustration. Over the last two decades, Israel and the United States have tried to persuade the world to stop treating Iran as a normal country and to ...

SUDHA DAVID-WILP is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

Gaza has reached a new equilibrium. Unsurprisingly, it is an ugly one. The good news is that the intense fighting is over and humanitarian relief is steadily entering the strip. Since the cease-fire ...

There is unfortunate irony in Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov’s October 15 article, “Israel’s Vision of Victory,” which claims to outline how Israel can “bring peace to the Middle East.” In doing so, the ...

An earlier Omani-brokered agreement between the Houthis and the U.S. government also seemed to wind down the direct Houthi threat to U.S. assets in the shipping corridor. Within Yemen, a fragile three ...

From virtually the moment he and his band of bearded rebels rode into Havana in 1959 until his death from natural causes in 2016, the most iconic leader in Latin America was Fidel Castro. With his ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has demonstrated—if any more proof were needed—that the days when allies could rely on the United States to uphold world order are over. For the 80 ...

During the interwar years, support for revolutionary, anticapitalist parties by the Soviet-led Communist International laid the groundwork for the expansion of communism after World War II. Following ...

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...