The Horn of Africa has emerged as a defining arena of geopolitical competition. China is expanding its military footprint there. The conflict with Iran has…

In his day, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously noted that “change is the only constant.” That axiom has held true for centuries. Even so, today’s…

Today, the Bay of Bengal is still an arena in which the regional balance can be actively shaped. Washington has already built an India policy…

Armenia’s June election was a seminal moment, the importance of which extends well beyond Armenian domestic politics. It demonstrated that the country’s strategic reorientation has…

For those on the ground in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), watching the Iran conflict up close has been nothing short of a life-changing experience.…

For decades, Georgia was one of America’s most reliable strategic partners in the Black Sea and South Caucasus, and a key reason the U.S. architecture…

For the countries of Central Asia, multi-vector diplomacy has become a necessity: a structural response to geography, history, economics, and security. The question now is…

There is a tendency in Washington foreign policy circles to treat the Balkans as a problem to be managed, rather than an asset to be…

As the blood-soaked year of 2025 gave way to 2026, neither the regional nor the global picture can be said to appear especially promising, as…

The world as we have known it for most of our lives is over. The post-Cold War Era is well and truly dead. We are…

Peace in the Taiwan Strait is not preserved by slogans. Nor is it kept by weapons alone. Rather, what is essential is to eliminate any…

President Trump has frequently argued that Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine is not his war. He has claimed that, had he been in the Oval…