Why risk confrontation to save Caracas or Tehran when its primary rival in Washington is already bleeding military resources and diplomatic capital?

The question Israel lives with every day is not which IR theory – liberalism or realism – is correct. It is which one buys more time.

Delving into the data on lost oil volumes transiting the Strait of Hormuz, strategic reserves around the world, and how the ...

The ongoing conflict between Israel, the US, and Iran recalls one of the most famous episodes of the Peloponnesian war, where hubris paved the way for disaster.

Short-term, the policy of arming and supporting ethnic proxies could hasten the demise of the Islamic regime in Iran. But the ...

Putin Russia. It will either remain a feral, aggressive, isolated Empire, or it will fall apart with a deafening crash. A transitional, cozy European alternative for this territory simply does not ...

Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in ...

China’s clean-energy exports are dominating in the Global South, such that it is now being called an ‘electrostate.’ But this economic success story is giving rise to new political dependencies that ...

A new antidumping duty targeting Russian palladium seeks to insulate US domestic capacity of a critical mineral that plays an ...

Like early hopes of people power standing in for boots on the ground, war by proxy is a beguiling idea: it’s hands off, ...

As a phenomenon whose behavior is driven by long-range impersonal forces rather than whimsical vicissitudes, the evolution of organized crime in Mexico has proved to be quite dynamic and ductile. The ...