On Monday, six weeks into its war with Iran, the United States imposed a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. According to conventional wisdom, the war has made Tehran realize that its control of ...

Lessons from Hungary for pro-democracy movements worldwide.

Since the beginning of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a contradictory approach to the war in Ukraine and how it should end. In September 2025, Trump said that Ukrainians should ...

Traditionally, alliances were forged as highly contingent, time-bound partnerships, but after World War II, the United States went about establishing permanent ones, including NATO and bilateral ...

Despite frantic, overnight negotiations, peace talks between Iran and the United States have broken down. The two sides had no shortage of dispute to settle, and so it was always going to be hard for ...

DANIEL W. DREZNER is Distinguished Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Previously, he was Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Project on ...

In Iran, the endgame began with Trump’s threat of massive destruction if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz, and it will continue until the belligerents come to a stable agreement ending ...

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy. His books include The End ...

The performance should give pause to U.S. adversaries that have been watching the war in Iran unfold. Massive volleys of long-range drones and ballistic missiles are a preferred offensive tool of ...

For now, Washington seems to care far more about the fortunes of Venezuela’s economy, notably its oil industry, than those of its democracy. Yet those priorities have placed Venezuela in a paradoxical ...

For decades, Europe assumed that its U.S. ally would come to its defense if the continent faced a direct attack from its neighbor to the east. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s hostility toward Europe ...