Recently, I’ve wanted to write a piece about the Middle East. But what to write about? What country should I focus on? And even if I...

In 2018, Serhii Plokhy, Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard, published Lost Kingdom, an intellectual and cultural history of...

EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Summit of the Americas took place, hosted by President Biden in Los Angeles. I heard about it through a headline...

Last summer, I wrote about how both the United States and China were pushing for autarky (self-sufficiency), trying to uncouple their...

About a month and a half ago, I wrote an article on the crisis in Ukraine. The point of that piece was to sum-up the main lessons of the...

Every age has its boogeyman, the existential threat to which all paranoia returns. For a long time in the West, this was the USSR. Then...

Once again, there is crisis in Ukraine. Russia, that perennial malcontent, has been steadily augmenting its military forces near the...

For the last two weeks, the COP26 conference has dominated headlines. This is unsurprising, as the conference had been hyped for more...

On September 15th, a new strategic and technological pact was agreed between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The...

In this piece, the last of my three-part series on the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I will discuss the issue of success. Did the original, 1941...

As effective COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in the early months of 2021, the vaccine rollouts of various countries and regions...

This week, it seems inappropriate to write about anything other than Afghanistan. The events surrounding the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul...

In my first article about the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I wrote about the extent to which it is a symbolic document. In particular, I wanted...

The United States, represented by Joe Biden, and the United Kingdom, represented by Boris Johnson, agreed to a renewed Atlantic Charter...

International high tech innovation was once a project characterized by optimism and a belief in the possibility of mutual gain. This was...

Diplomacy is increasingly moving online. More specifically, summits and high-level negotiations between states and their representatives...