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While China barrels ahead building a new Silk Road for the 21st century, abandoned zones in the West reach a dead end.
Rejecting the Paris climate accord while diverging from European allies invites the emergence of an alternative global order.
It is a tragic mistake to reverse Obama’s opening to Iran at the very moment it is bearing fruit.
It’ll be harder for Trump to demonize a country where democratic culture is spreading, says Bani-Sadr.
An urgent realism over the mounting crisis is pushing all parties to the negotiating table.
A top Chinese diplomat makes the case for new talks with North Korea.
France is now the iconic test case of whether policies aligned with global integration can answer fears over job loss, security and identity.
Anti-immigrant populists seek to create a familiar space for their own kind in a world of tumult fomented by strangers.
The old mainstream parties have been upended by voters who fear immigrants, the “Uberization” of the economy and a split from the EU.
As with Brexit and Trump’s election, the referendum in Turkey exposed a polarized nation but resolved nothing.
Russia and the U.S. return to a “normal” state of icy hostility, a top analyst writes. Ousting Assad would lead to “brutal civil conflict,” a former CIA operati...
Prosperity built upon the U.S.-led open trading order now enables China to consume more American imports and export less.
Just as the internet has connected people beyond borders, weaponized information is reshaping war, espionage and propaganda globally.
Homo Deus author Yuval Noah Harari talks about what it means to be human in an age when the algorithm is merging big data and biology.
The strengths of both multi-party democracy and China’s consensus-driven politics also contain their flaws. History will judge which works better.
