The U.S. is about to give geopolitics a major test.

Global confidence in the dollar isn’t waning simply because the U.S. is buying less foreign oil.

Violence is making it harder for companies to operate in the country.

Mexican governments have always had a difficult time ruling over the outer reaches of their domain.

Chancellor Angela Merkel did not emerge from German federal elections unscathed, but she emerged nonetheless. Now that she has, she must throw the full weight of her limited powers into halting the EU’s slow decline into irrelevance.

For all its recent threats, Washington doesn’t want a trade war.

Trying to control the Chinese government machinery too tightly raises the risk of losing control of it altogether.

The Sino-U.S. diplomatic dance over Taiwan has outlasted the strategic environment in which it began.

The kingdoms of Earth are still driven by oil, but the world is not short of oil right now.

Germany needs Poland’s help, if it isn’t already too late.

The Russian leader understands that the appearance of weakness is more dangerous than the weakness itself.

Iran’s strategy in Iraq is to gradually exercise greater control over Iraqi state institutions.