The troubled, expensive, and ultimately failed “Vietnamization” of the U.S. Navy’s assistance to the Republic of Vietnam demonstrates the pitfalls of imposing the American “way of war” on a partner wi...

Taiwan is exploring buying arms worth billions of dollars from the United States, sources briefed on the matter said, hoping to win support from the new Trump administration as China continues to apply military pressure on the island.

Private Empires: The Development of Offshore Commercial and Financial Services in Tax Havens, 1955–1979

On July 28, 1945 Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki Kantarō apparently rejected the Potsdam Declaration, an ultimatum of the Allies calling for Japan’s surrender. In November 1950, Kazuo Kawai published a...

FP asked 10 writers to respond to the U.S. president’s shock announcement.

Hint: It has to do with tomatoes.

Washington, D.C., February 3, 2025 - Continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal “looks like pure colonialism,” Henry Kissinger advised President Gerald Ford during a National Security Council meeting ...

‘A Rightful Share of Prestige and Influence’: The Russian Brigades in Macedonia and Russia’s Ambitions in the Balkans during the First World War

Leaving millions of children out of school has devastating consequences.

The management of the Vietnamese refugee crisis, when the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettled approximately three million refugees between 1975 and 1997, remains a corne...

This article debunks China’s claim of impartiality in its foreign policy toward Palestine and Israel since 1989, and especially during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Despite a declared commitment to...

Lève-tard et blagueur, on lève le voile sur l'ancien président républicain Ronald Reagan et ses similitudes avec Donald Trump

Cambridge Core - UN and International Organisations - Local Peace, International Builders

Walter Crane, Imperial Federation: Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886. Published by Maclure & Co., 24 July 1886. Chuanyou ZhouUniversity of Exeter This post explores the signi…

The article briefly outlines the current state of scholarly literature devoted to ongoing debates on the history and role of war- and postwar open and closed trials of Nazi perpetrators and their auxi...

By the late 1930s, during the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the government had completely abolished Islamic education from all formal educational institutions, from primary schools to univ...

International financial institutions (IFIs) are central actors shaping global development. Scholarship on these institutions’ governance has primarily explored unequal voting rights and informal ch...

In the late 1920s, Soviet intelligence launched an effort to learn the tradecraft of foreign secret services. Among the key facilitators of this process was Konstantin Zvonariov, a Latvian communis...

U.S.-China tensions are unlikely to subside soon.  This report seeks to spur new thinking on how Washington and Beijing can collaborate on discrete transnational issues in ways that serve both nationa...

How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

Between 1949 and 1953, the CIA’s Munich operations base airdropped 12 agents into Western Ukraine with instructions to gather intelligence and assist the local partisan movement (Project AERODYNAMI...

In the First World War, royal visits to the front were important events for the cohesion of warring societies and the legitimation of European monarchies. As heads of state and (nominal) supreme co...

Building on the notion of geopolitical imaginaries, this paper delineates three distinct and successive periods in the French engagement with the Sahel: first, the (post)colonial era characterised ...

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères Lin Chia-lung [林佳龍] a conclu le 25 novembre une tournée européenne qui l’a amené en Belgique, où il s’est...