Norms are real, but there’s enormous room for interpretation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to visit Moscow this week in his first trip abroad since his reelection comes as no surprise to…
The Song-Liao treaty from Chinese history offers lessons on how fierce rivals can avoid war
The facts about the downing of the U.S. Reaper drone are still emerging, and many relevant specifics are yet to become public, but as we…
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
The peace plan is a big deal—and it’s no accident that China brokered it.
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting…
The Biden administration is striving for a unipolar order that no longer exists.
When U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the United States had just witnessed four of the most turbulent years in recent…
What government officials are saying in public, and private, is fascinating—and full of contradictions.