ISMET FATIH CANCAR was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies ...

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And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...

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Less than two months after he committed to a phased cease-fire with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed ...

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he ...