A deepening spat between Russia and Azerbaijan shows Vladimir Putin's waning influence in the South Caucasus, analysts have ...

In June 2025, Kyiv destroyed a third of Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet in a meticulously planned strike codenamed “Operation ...

The EU must urgently tackle security threats, economic rivalry, migration and internal divisions to regain global influence ...

Vladimir Putin’s “colossal error” in Ukraine is setting the stage for a potential collapse of the Russian Federation, ...

Trump’s on-again, off-again approach to tariffs is also entirely consistent with this explanation: He likes tariffs because ...

A problem with lengthy sanctions regimes is that as trade diminishes, they tend to become less effective. As economist Albert Hirschman argued in his seminal work on trade and power, trade is both a ...

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US Crude Oil rose at its fastest single-day pace in over a month after US President Donald Trump announced that he's giving Russia just ten days to reach an acceptable resolution on Ukraine, or face ...

A new Pew survey is suggesting that global viewpoints on China may be trending in a slightly more positive direction for the ...

By applying American power in energetic, omnidirectional fashion, Trump has revealed much about the true state of world affairs.

Azerbaijani-Russian relations face their worst crisis in decades, fueled by geopolitical rivalry, energy competition, media warfare, and Russia’s aggression, culminating in a deadly airliner incident ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...