Are There Positive Results from Trump’s Reduction of Support for America’s Allies?

Reexamining the War on Terror 25 Years after 9/11

The Decline of External Powers and Rise of Regional Powers

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared to expect a quick victory when his forces attacked Iran in September 1980.

How Deploying a Double Could Backfire on Putin

An anonymous, but apparently pro-Ukrainian, bettor has placed a $400,000 wager on the betting platform Polymarket that Putin will no longer be Russia’s president by the end of 2026.

The bipolar Soviet-American Cold War era is long over.

As Saudi Arabia and Russia deepen cooperation, their combined influence over global oil supply is growing. Could this shift the balance of power in energy markets?

Ruski uticaj na Bliskom istoku je opao, jer Moskva nije bila u stanju da spreči pad Asadovog režima u Siriji u decembru 2024. godine, nije bila spremna da značajno pomogne Iranu tokom njegovog dvanaes...

The war in the Gulf is reshaping Russia’s strategic position in the Middle East, particularly its approach toward Iran and its relationships with the Gulf...

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US intervention in Iran is just the latest example of Washington becoming distracted by smaller adversaries. The prospect of a years-long war in Iran casts a specter on US strategy.

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Russia likely views Iran’s mass anti-regime protests with deep unease, but may ultimately adapt just as it did in Syria to preserve influence whether the Islamic Republic survives or a new political o...

Experts discuss Russia's partnerships in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, and how US policy should adjust as those relationships shift.

Seldom has a major power been able to keep a foothold in country where the government it propped up got overthrown. By staying in Syria, Moscow is an exception to the rule.

While relations between Moscow and Tehran have generally been good, ties between former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the seemingly perpetual Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...

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Putin could strategically benefit from ending the Ukraine war by shifting US focus toward China, reducing dependence on Beijing, and regaining leverage—but he is too proud to do it.

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How the complex realities of geo-political decision-making can mark the difference between an imagined scenario and a real-world crisis.

While Putin sees BRICS expansion as a tool to counter Western influence, internal disagreements and differing group goals limit its effectiveness as a unified anti-Western alliance.

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While Trump has succeeded in uniting disparate groups with differing interests, it is not clear whether anyone else can do so.

What the 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade reveals about Russia’s shifting global alliances – and why the age of Kremlinology is over.

From the start of the Trump administration, there has been a clash in the transatlantic view of foreign policy, particularly noticeable is how best to resolve Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The parallels between the 1938 Munich Agreement’s appeasement of Nazi Germany and Donald Trump’s Munich Security Conference accommodation of Putin should not be ignored.

Neither the US nor Israel should help Putin out by providing the new Syrian government with a motive to allow him to keep his bases in Syria.

It would be in the United States’ and Israel’s interests not to give the new Syrian government reasons to let Russia keep those bases.

Containing rivals via buck-passing may be less costly for the U.S. than continuing to respond to each and every threat as if in a unipolar world.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been ousted as opposition forces quickly took Damascus. Atlantic Council experts share their insights.

The current setbacks faced by Russian forces in the face of rebel advances in Syria could have an impact that spreads far beyond that long-beleaguered Middle Eastern country.

After many months of Ukrainian leader Zelensky asking, President Biden finally allowed Kyiv to fire U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles into Russian territory. What will Donald Tr...

Since China and Russia are so closely aligned, thwarting Russian ambitions in Ukraine and elsewhere is a crucial element of the U.S. effort to contain China.

In the geopolitical realm, American power and influence in various countries has usually depended on the convergence of two factors: 1) the demand on the part of other countries for American securi…