July 28, 2017 Sanctions can achieve little on their own and might actually make a situation worse.

July 27, 2017 Threats may be its only option, but there’s a cost to perpetual coercion.

July 27, 2017 Geography prevents any one nation from dominating the continent.

July 26, 2017 Whatever the intent of the propaganda and the hacks, the Russians are back where they started.

July 26, 2017 The bloc’s member states can’t agree on how to approach expanded U.S. sanctions against Moscow.

July 25, 2017 A treaty with the semi-autonomous republic of Tatarstan has become a tool of Moscow’s retribution.

July 24, 2017 The bloc has become an authoritarian regime insisting that it is the defender of liberal democracy.

July 24, 2017 In all economic statistics, there is an inherent margin of error, which makes economic forecasting difficult.

July 21, 2017 The Shiite-Sunni struggle itself is the direct result of the Sunnis’ own divisions.

July 20, 2017 Geography dictated that the region would be a loose affiliation of disconnected states, not a coherent bloc.

July 20, 2017 In geopolitics, nice gestures and money don’t make the world turn.

July 19, 2017 The most recent chapter of Beijing’s anti-corruption saga is interesting not for what happened but for where it happened.