The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial crisis and its fallout, the COVID-19 pandemic and major regional conflicts in Sudan, the Middle East, Ukraine and ...

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

1951 was a turning point where the Cold War hardened into a global standoff. Nuclear tests, espionage trials, and brutal fighting in Korea pushed tensions higher than ever. Major treaties reshaped the ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

Western leaders are deeply reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: we are already enmeshed in a new Cold War. More precisely, the authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, along with ...

The Cold War, as we are taught, was an existential struggle between two irreconcilable systems: Communism vs. democratic capitalism. A worldwide conflict emerged from the clash over Eastern Europe’s ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced ...

An article by Philip Zelikow in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, titled “The Atrophy of American Statecraft,” argues that the U.S. is having a hard time dealing with all the problems in the world ...