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On January 8, 2026, a quiet yet profoundly dangerous shift occurred in the history of the international order. In a press.

A top-level South Korean delegation was received by Japan's Sanae Takaichi (l) in her home town of NaraPool for Yomiuri/AP Photo/picture alliance South Korean President Lee Jae Myung received a very ...

The 1979 Islamic Revolution appeared to represent a radical rupture in Iranian foreign policy. The Shah’s pro-Western alignment gave way to revolutionary export and ‘neither East nor West’ ...

Donald Trump's hostile signals over Greenland and the aftermath of the Venezuela attack have raised fears in Japan and South Korea that Washington is no longer committed to its allies in East ...

Read a comparison between Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, and more often than not, it begins and ends with scandal ...

The unclassified version of the US National Defense Strategy quietly dropped a week ago. The world awaits the Pentagon’s ...

In detailing the U.S. military action that led to the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump referenced the Monroe Doctrine, a maxim that has shaped American foreign policy ...

The demise of the Fairness Doctrine catalyzed an efflorescence of political speech on talk radio in the 1990s, enabling the ...

US global dominance has never been accidental. It comes from decades of strategy, adaptation, and the careful linking of ...