United States

Opinion – The 2025 Munich Security Conference as a Defining Moment

Artur Simonyan • Mar 3 2025 • Articles

The 2025 Munich Security Conference solidified a decisive shift in international legal discourse, moving from the post-Cold War liberal order toward a framework shaped by realpolitik.

Creating and Mirroring Monsters: Trump’s America and Europe’s Role in It

Haakon A. Ikonomou • Feb 28 2025 • Articles

Europe seems to be the new “monster” of the US Presidency, but how did this come about?

Opinion – The World Before and After Munich

Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay • Feb 25 2025 • Articles

As a new international system takes shape, influenced by emerging actors from the Global South, the distribution of global power is bound to continue to shift away from the Western core.

Opinion – Luigi Mangione and the Politics of Violence Labelling

Adriana Marin • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

Prosecuting Mangione as a terrorist undermines his right to a fair trial and risks dismissing valid critiques of systemic healthcare inequities.

Review – Spying in South Asia

Dhruv Gadhavi • Jan 27 2025 • Features

By avoiding half-baked narratives and using rich archival research, this book convincingly reveals how Cold War intelligence shaped India’s politics and security.

Opinion – Leading the Free World Through a Second Trump Administration

Karsten Jung • Jan 15 2025 • Articles

Any arrangement that is to guide the free world through the period of persistent uncertainty ahead, must be shielded from nationalistic and populist tendencies.

Thinking Global Podcast – Trita Parsi

E-International Relations • Dec 2 2024 • Features

As part of our US election series, Trita Parsi speaks about Trump’s Middle East foreign policy, US-Israel relations, the Abraham Accords, Turkey, and more.

Thinking Global Podcast – James Goldgeier

E-International Relations • Nov 27 2024 • Features

James Goldgeier speaks about the future of US foreign policy following the 2024 US Presidential Elections. This is the third episode in our US elections series.

Opinion – In a Knife-edge Election, Two Different Portrayals of America

Chris Featherstone • Nov 26 2024 • Articles

The campaigns of Trump and Harris presented very different images of American foreign policy, yet Trump’s win showcased what the electorate was looking for.

Opinion – The 2025 Philippine General Election and US Strategy in Asia

Rizal Buendia • Nov 19 2024 • Articles

Those elected in 2025 may give us early signs of whether the path ahead will be one of continued alignment with the US, or one that moves the Philippines towards China.

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