When I told a friend I had just written a book on morality and foreign policy, she quipped: “It must be a very short book.” Such skepticism is common. An...
The Kremlin is on a roll. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has replaced the United States in Syria, continues to intervene in Eastern Ukraine, and...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been accused of weaponizing economic globalization. Sanctions, tariffs and the restriction of access to dollars have been...
Earlier this year, American officials acknowledged that U.S. offensive cyber operations had stopped Russian disruption of the 2018 congressional election....
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has shown little interest in public diplomacy. And yet public diplomacy - a government’s efforts to communicate...
The United States responded weakly after Russian cyber operations disrupted the 2016 presidential election. U.S. President Barack Obama had warned his Russian...
The dysfunctional politics of Brexit in the United Kingdom, and the midterm election reaction against President Donald Trump in the United States, are...
The term “fake news” has become an epithet that U.S. President Donald Trump attaches to any unfavorable story. But it is also an analytical term that...
On a visit to Beijing in October, I was often asked whether U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s recent harsh criticism of China marked the declaration of a new...
In July, I joined 43 other scholars of international relations in paying for a newspaper advertisement arguing that the U.S. should preserve the current...
By June 1 of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump had made 3,259 false or misleading claims, according to The Washington Post Fact Checker’s database, which...
For years, political leaders such as former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have warned of the danger of a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” We have known for some...
It is frequently said that we are experiencing an information revolution. But what does that mean, and where is the revolution taking us?Information...
Many experts have proclaimed the death of the post-1945 liberal international order, including the human rights regime set forth in the 1948 Universal...
When the Trilateral Commission – a group of political and business leaders, journalists and academics – met here in Singapore recently, many expressed concern...
The evidence is clear. Donald Trump’s presidency has eroded America’s soft power. Only 30 percent of people recently polled by Gallup in 134 countries held a...
In 2008, when the United States’ National Intelligence Council published its Global Trends 2025 report, a key prediction was tighter energy competition....
Last week, Kurds in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence for the country’s Kurdistan Region. With some 30 million Kurds divided among...
The United States has never had a president like Donald Trump. With a narcissistic personality and a short attention span, and lacking experience in world...
When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60 percent said they expected the United States to...
A series of episodes in recent years – including Russia’s cyber interventions to skew the United States’ 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump, the...
In early November, U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly contacted Russian President Vladimir Putin personally to warn against cyberattacks aimed at the...
During his campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump questioned the alliances and institutions that undergird the liberal world order, but he spelled out...
In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites. The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump’s unexpected capture of the...
This election season has been marked by frequent charges of dishonesty. During Britain’s “Brexit” debate, each side charged the other with distorting the...