The relentless advance of ISIS in 2014/2015 has brought back to centre stage a series of questions about the nature, and even viability, of the Iraqi state. Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 ...

On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The ...

Within this shifting landscape, Burundi—often seen as peripheral—demands particular attention. Despite being similar in size to Lesotho at around 27,900 ...

Middlebury College majoring in International Global Studies with a focus on East Asia. She currently works as a host on the Irregular Warfare podcast and a research assistant for the James Martin ...

Although a positive step, making water flow data during the dry season available is insufficient to counter China’s influence ...

The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history—from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and ...

US-South Africa relations have been tense and difficult for several years, but with the advent of the Trump administration they have reached a critical ...