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Ortega has turned his brutal crackdown against critics into a form of interstate violence that also targets Nicaragua’s neighbors and trade partners.

The priorities of this year’s NATO summit were to appease Trump and prevent a major disaster. That meant neglecting the alliance’s broader goals.

Three recent events underscored not only the continued relevance of naval power in international politics, but also its growing importance in the 21st century.

The Israel-Iran war has confirmed the resilience of ties between Israel and the Arab countries with which it maintains formal and informal ties.

Despite their differences in style and focus, or perhaps because of them, Ardern’s and Merkel’s memoirs put the human side of politics in the spotlight.

In dismissing overcapacity as merely convenient complaints for Western politicians, Chinese policymakers forget China’s own trajectory.

The current conflict between Israel and Iran should put to the test all the threat analyses about Iran’s presence in the Western Hemisphere that have been written over the past several decades.

The logic of prevention may have simply been an excuse for Israel to attack Iran. But the regional security dilemma also made conditions ripe for war.

Israel’s attacks on Iran cement a hard truth for the United States: Pivoting away from the Middle East isn’t as simple as just ignoring it.

Noboa won reelection promising a hardline security agenda to tackle Ecuador’s security crisis. His plans will face two major challenges.

The centrality of wealth in U.S. politics under Trump is more a sign of continuity than change. His falling out with Elon Musk only underscores this point.

The spectacular falling out last week between Donald Trump and Elon Musk highlighted two dangerous developments affecting U.S. national security.

There are three key lessons Western military leaders and civilian policymakers should draw from Ukraine’s drone attack on Russia’s warplanes.

China’s dominance over the rare earths sector gives it enormous leverage in the U.S.-China trade war. It didn’t achieve that dominance by accident.

A police task force is using armed drones to attack the gangs threatening to take over Haiti. But that is no substitute for a functioning state.

With Operation Spiderweb, Ukraine demonstrated it has a lot of fight left. All that means is that the war is set to rage on.

Ukraine’s drone attack on military aircraft inside Russia was a tactical victory, but also a message to multiple audiences in Moscow and Washington.