It’s hard to pin down the true significance of China’s wildly ambitious, globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative. This is, in part, because the BRI is no longer just a cohesive network of infrastructure projects along a handful of routes spanning Eurasia —as originally unveiled in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Instead, BRI has become a label that’s getting attached […]
Nagorno-Karabakh, the embattled exclave informally controlled by ethnic Armenians but located entirely inside Azerbaijan, is at the center of a decades-long conflict in a...
Just under 28 miles from continental Europe lies the United Kingdom. At just 94,000-square miles, this small nation has historically played a disproportionately large...
Shortly after the discovery of the Americas, European explorers, merchants and government officials began contemplating a maritime route that would enable ships to reach...
