Every day, it seems Americans awaken to a crisis signifying a world out of their control. In Europe, our allies and partners are coping with Russian aggression, ranging from cyber attacks and energy coercion to conventional military might and a renewed emphasis on nuclear...

Economic sanctions have become the tool of choice for American foreign policy.

Beginning with Richard Nixon’s 1973 visit to china, balancing between Moscow and Beijing has been a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy.

Imagine that a new parliamentary political faction is suddenly formed in the European parliament consisting of 38 members from over eight European countries.

There is nothing like nuclear weapons to add drama to conventional crises. On the anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, President Putin’s claim that he considered placing Russia’s nuclear weapons on alert to deter retaliatory action caused more than a few...

Whoever takes office in January 2017 is likely to inherit a nuclear landscape of greater risk, complexity, and challenge than any time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

“It has been a long and hard fight, and we have lost. This experience, unique in the history of the United States, does not signal necessarily the demise of the United States as a world power.

The United States appears to be on the defensive everywhere. China has embarked on an aggressive reclamation and fortification program in the South China Sea and is calling for a new Eurasian order that would diminish U.S. alliances.

As the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Kazakhstan was one of 15 former Soviet republics that declared independence.

The report provides a critical account of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) as an analytical category, examining some of its constitutive dimensions.

Transatlantic sanctions adopted against Russia, a strategy of hard power coercion short of the use of force, have enabled Europe and the United States, along with their allies like Canada, Japan, and Australia, to build a united response to Russia’s strategy of militarized...