By most measures of national security, the world is getting safer. So why do we feel so insecure?

In Uganda, the military ran this year’s beauty pageant. What this tells us about Western aid money and Uganda’s problems with democracy.

Poland’s purchase of an advanced American standoff missile has the potential to shake up the strategic calculus in the east.

Everywhere, the President’s foreign policy has miscarried. Does The Prince have any advice that might yet rescue the situation, and with it the President’s power?

IS poses a terrorist threat unlike any Europe has faced before.

What the New Republic and the Washington Redskins have in common.

There is no “Plan B” for the Israelis and Palestinians.

Putin’s Russia may be able to wreck the geopolitical status quo, but it doesn’t have the power to replace it.

How the West answers this question will determine its relations not just with Russia, but with China as well.

Europe is mired in deep denial about the historical currents driving Russia’s actions in Ukraine.