Abeyagoonasekera begins by outlining the reality on the ground since the February 2021 coup d’état. More than 6,000 people have been killed, over 3.5 million displaced and roughly half the population ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...

Jenkins grew up in a cotton mill town in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, in a family where mill work begins young and college is more aspiration than inheritance. His parents insisted he ...

France is facing rapidly mounting debt, which has resulted in a dangerous political paralysis. The country has cycled through five prime ministers in two years. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ...

Yemen’s economy suffers from heavy reliance on imports and political instability that undermine development efforts led by the Southern Transitional Council and the internationally recognized ...

As Washington looks away from Kabul, Moscow and Beijing are leaning in. Beijing has maintained dialogue — without formal recognition — with the new Afghan government to sustain its investments and ...

Traveling home from London after a conference recently, I fell into conversation with four fellow passengers, all 16-year-old high school students. We talked about several subjects, including ...

When American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington published The Clash of Civilizations, he argued that post-Cold War conflict would shift from ideology to culture, with Western, Islamic, Sinic ...