With great power comes great responsibility,” goes the iconic declaration by Spider-Man. Worryingly, great power is being bequeathed to an increasingly irresponsible humanity. There have been ...

Prompted by the ease with which Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Kastner and Wohlforth ask whether the Russian intervention really was an unprecedented and uniquely audacious ...

China today is 4 times more populous than the United States. At the turn of the century, it could conceivably have roughly the same number of people as America.

OXFORD – In September 2015, Russia intervened militarily in Syria’s civil war, propping up Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship as it teetered on the brink of collapse. This was the high point of ...

Syria was an important symbol for Russia – an emblem of its great-power status. Vladimir Putin’s inability – despite his posturing – to prevent the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad shattered ...