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...
A trend toward greater authoritarianism seems to be spreading worldwide. Vladimir Putin has successfully used nationalism to tighten his control over Russia...
Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive U.S. presidential nominee, has expressed deep skepticism about the value of America’s alliances. His is a...
Britain joined what became the European Union in 1973. This year, on June 23, it will hold a referendum on whether to leave. Should it?Current polls show a...
Donald Trump’s lead in the race for the Republican Party’s nomination as its presidential candidate in November has caused consternation. The Republican...
American politics has been captured by terrorists. In December 2015 polls showed that one in six Americans, some 16 percent of the population, now identify...
In 1973, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, following a period of American preoccupation with Vietnam and China, declared a “year of Europe.” More...
Fear of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” first appeared in the 1990s, and for the past two decades, policymakers have worried that hackers could blow up oil pipelines,...
When U.S. President Barack Obama recently spoke at the United Nations about countering ISIS, many of his critics complained that he put too much emphasis on...
ISIS has captured the world’s attention with gruesome videos of beheadings, wanton destruction of antiquities and skilled use of social media.It has also...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited U.S. President Barack Obama to attend his country’s Republic Day ceremonies earlier this year, it signaled an...
China has been making major efforts to increase its ability to influence other countries without force or coercion. In 2007, then-President Hu Jintao told the...
When a U.S. Navy P8-A surveillance aircraft recently flew near Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, it was warned eight times by...
Last month, the Netherlands hosted the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015, which brought together nearly 2,000 government officials, academics, industry...
As Europe debates whether to maintain its sanctions regime against Russia, the Kremlin’s policy of aggression toward Ukraine continues unabated.Russia is in...
No country in modern history has possessed as much global military power as the United States. Yet some analysts now argue that the U.S. is following in the...
At the World Economic Forum’s recent annual meeting in Davos, I participated in a panel of defense leaders to discuss the future of the military. The issue we...
Some analysts believe that 2014 ushered in a new era of Cold War-style geopolitics. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of...
President Vladimir Putin’s covert aggression in Ukraine continues – and so do Western sanctions against his country. But the economy is not all that is under...
With the approach of the U.S. congressional elections, questions about the health of America’s political institutions and the future of its global leadership...
The Aspen Strategy Group, a nonpartisan group of foreign-policy experts that former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and I co-chair, recently...
China’s rise has raised many questions for the West, with some wondering whether it is set to usurp a struggling Europe’s global leadership role.As one...
Last month, in his address to the graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, President Barack Obama stated that some of America’s most...