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The real nuclear challenge is what to do when personalist dictatorships, such as North Korea, get the bomb. Careful handling and creative policymaking might contain the situation, but Washington is not providing either.

The United States and key regional allies are finally sharpening their focus on strategic competition with China for influence in the South Pacific.

Robots have the potential to greatly improve the quality of our lives at home, at work, and at play. Customized robots working alongside people will create new jobs, improve the quality of existing jobs, and give people more time to focus on what they find interesting, important, and exciting.

Between 1996 and 2011, I served as a consultant to the Kremlin, advising Russian Presidents Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Medvedev. And yet even I can hardly claim to understand the real mechanisms of power in today’s Russia. In the past few years, the country has reached a level of dysfunction that has pushed it to the brink, threatening its very existence.

Sanctions have become a favorite tool of U.S. policymakers. But they are often crafted too hastily to work or imposed too late to deter adversaries. It’s time for the U.S. government to modernize its favorite foreign policy tool.

Life in Nigeria's largest city is changing for the better, offering a potential lesson for struggling states looking to stage a turnaround: mayors and city councils are more likely to embrace positive change than legislatures and presidents -- and far more quickly and effectively.

An end to Russia’s intrusions into Ukraine would bring some measure of respite to Kiev. However, that alone will not be enough to place the country on a truly new path. For that, Ukraine must overcome its self-inflicted problems, in particular rampant and pervasive corruption.

January’s global stock market rout was initially triggered by mounting concerns over China’s shrinking industrial sector. But such concerns are unjustified. By now, it is clear that Beijing is doing everything in its power to rebalance its economy from industrial to service-based. In 2013, services overtook the industrial sector in both total size and pace of growth, and they now account for almost 50 percent of China’s GDP.

Trump has abdicated responsibility for the U.S.-led liberal order, and only time will tell the full extent of the damage he will wreak.

On March 30, 2008, several hundred people gathered at the waterfront in San Francisco. They had come to witness the unveiling of a monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: 2,800 Americans who joined some 35,000 other volunteers from more than 50 countries to defend the Spanish Republic against fascist forces during Spain’s civil war. The conflict, which raged from 1936 until 1939, led to the deaths of around half a million people, including at least 750 Americans.

What should the United States do after ISIS’ all-but-inevitable defeat? Despite President Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric, the best approach is one close to the strategy the Obama administration pursued in 2016: airstrikes, raids by special operations forces, and battalion-sized U.S. forces deployed to counter specific threats.

The appointment of the Hindu nationalist Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh raises a question about Narendra Modi: Is he a reformer or a reactionary? The answer is that he's both—and always has been.

The past, present, and future of Middle Eastern beer brewing.

The longer the Russian war against Ukraine continues, the more likely it is that President Vladimir Putin’s regime will collapse.

According to conventional wisdom, the deterioration of US-Israeli relations is the result of personal animosity between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama. But ill-will is more of a symptom than a cause. In fact, the increased friction reflects a new Israeli grand strategy. Rather than seeking to minimize differences with the United States over Iran and Palestine, as previous Israeli governments had done, Netanyahu has worked to diversify Israel's international partnerships, cultivating new friends - from India to China to Saudi Arabia - so that Israel is less dependent on the United States.

China is not the hegemon-in-waiting that many consider it to be.

The history suggests Mueller's report won't provide all the answers.

Fears that Trump’s embrace of “America first” would lead the United States to turn its back on the world have proved groundless. But there is still space for a future leader to convert the slogan into a concrete program of enlightened action to ensure the safety of the United States without engaging in needless wars.

On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so long as he was in power.

The Brexit vote was the result of many things: deep historical forces, individual choices, and the strategies of the campaigns. But above all, it stemmed from the failures of David Cameron’s conservative government, failures with which the United Kingdom will have to live for decades to come.