OnJanuary 23, Venezuela’s opposition-ledNational Assemblyshocked the world. It declared the country’s president,Nicolás Maduro, illegitimate, pronounced his office vacant, and proceeded to swear…

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations betweenChinaandthe United Statesand the start of China’s “reform and opening up.” In the late 1970s,Chinawas still…

Johnny Rotten launched himself to stardom by walking up and down the King’s Road in Chelsea, spitting at people. “I did it because they were stupid.” ‘The Guardian,’ 3 December 1976 One…

Nature abhors a vacuum. So does the world of power politics. It should come as no surprise that after President Trump declared he would be withdrawing US forces from Syria, the rush to fill the…

Over the course of his two years in office,U.S.PresidentDonald Trumphas been vocal in his disdain for most forms of multilateralism. Yet when it comes to two pressing maritime issues inEast Asia, his…

In the decade following the Cold War, Africa saw many democratic success stories. In 1991,BeninandZambiawere the first former dictatorships to hold multiparty elections after the fall of theSoviet…

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an event. At a time when partisans can barely agree on facts, such…

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We often recall World War I and the two decades that followed as a grim chapter of history, the prelude to an even costlier and more destructive war from 1939 to 1945. We remember terrible losses—the…