Financing resilience when private returns fall short of strategic needs the state must still meet

Why mass movements keep producing new elites rather than durable democratic institutions

How a moment of bleak political realities produce a diplomatic opening, and what it would take to seize it

If Congress advances new rules on cryptocurrency, it must advance tighter anti-money laundering requirements alongside them

How prisoner releases in Afghanistan and Mali strengthened insurgent groups as Western counterterrorism capacity contracted

Currency collapse pushed Tehran toward Caracas abroad

The infrastructure the global economy depends on is only as reliable as the capital behind it

A model of governance built on executive authority rather than collective authorization

Why the postwar system needs transformation rather than another round of incremental reform

Three deadlocks stand between a framework agreement and a settlement: a constitution, a border, and a corridor

Weapons sales as revenue, and a conflict on the northern border Tehran could not afford to take sides in

Kosovo, Crimea, and the Binding Force of International Law

Why an accession stalled over identity and history has become a test of Western credibility

When assets move offshore, domestic law reaches its limit — and so does the promise that it binds everyone

What twenty years of missed openings in Afghanistan suggest about the war in Gaza

Underground infrastructure and advanced centrifuges as leverage ahead of a change of administration in Washington