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Joe Biden is the latest in a long line of American leaders who have tried to persuade Russians and other rivals to back down from a military confrontation.

Secretary Blinken is in the Pacific even as the U.S. confronts challenges in Ukraine and the Mideast. America’s ability to provide leadership is being tested.

How do you meet the challenge of a Cold War crisis 30 years after its official end? That’s one of the questions facing the U.S. as Russian troops mass along the Ukraine border.

Over the past half-decade or so, the foreign policy establishment in Washington has moved toward agreeing that the United States and China are locked in a great power rivalry. There is not much consensus beyond that point, however. The Republican Party has not yet decided whether to defend the fraying liberal international order or to jettison it for a more nationalistic approach, and the Democrats are wavering between prioritizing the rivalry with China or other concerns such as reducing greenh...

The Russia-Ukraine crisis offers a lesson: The U.S. is still a superpower, but its ability to influence events overseas is increasingly limited.

Unless Biden can shift the tide, Putin will continue his long campaign to reverse the post-Cold War principles under which countries in the world navigate the future together.

China could use a Russian invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to launch aggression of its own in the Indo-Pacific, Liz Truss has warned.

China could use a Russian invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to launch aggression of its own in the Indo-Pacific, Liz Truss has warned.

A perpetual challenge in empire-building is knowing when to let further expansion take a back seat to consolidation.

China could use a Russian invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to launch aggression of its own in the Indo-Pacific, Liz Truss has warned.