Some U.S. national security experts have taken to calling this group “the axis of upheaval” or “the axis of autocracy,” ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he also directs the Center for Preventive Action.

But the pause in U.S. aid served as a dramatic wake-up call: the most crucial factor in determining how long and how ...

Iran has grappled with a series of setbacks. Hamas and Hezbollah, Tehran’s long-standing nonstate regional allies, have been ...

Less than two months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has made good—with startling intensity—on his campaign promise to impose tariffs. On inauguration day, he issued the America ...

But its ability to deliver long-term growth and improve Americans’ quality of life hinges on whether it can build at scale.

The nuclear shadow has precluded large-scale war between nuclear states. A fear of mutual destruction helped keep the Cold ...

In a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah in February, U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the United States should seize control of Gaza, empty it of its roughly two million ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

They believe these states do not do enough to defend themselves and may not even share American values. On the other hand, ...