It’s not going to be easy for Duterte to make the Philippines into the Switzerland of the South China Sea.

The next joint military exercise will be the last.

Comparing and contrasting different cases of “religionization” or “desecularization” yields striking parallels.

Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Democratic candidate tactfully signaled she is not interested in having her predecessor tie her hands.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, let’s strengthen our partnership. That’s the spirit of the Obama Administration’s policy of dealing with Russia in Syria.

A Bosnian referendum shows Russia’s influence in the Balkans—as well as its limits.

Oregon’s pension board head weeps in public as the growing budgetary burden threatens to crush schools across the state. This can’t end well.

Russia’s security services have been slowly taking over the state—and dismantling Putin’s own system of keeping the various factions competing with each other.

Turning Obama’s hunger for negotiated deals into a ritual theater of serial humiliation is exactly what Putin wants.

She’s hardly singing from the nativists’ hymn book, but the Chancellor’s latest statements do represent a tactical walk-back on migration.