The long-time world chess champion coaches the West on its game against Putin, but his advice lacks nuance and a thorough grounding in history.

For Moscow, U.S.-Turkish cooperation on Syria fits into a pattern of Western hostility to Russian interests dating back to the 19th century. U.S. and European statesmen should tread lightly.

The devastation next door, combined with ISIS attacks and rising sectarian tensions at home, could send Lebanon into round two of its civil war.

Khrushchev thought the Soviet Union was on the “right side of history,” too.

South Africa has much in common with other poorly governed commodity producers around the world.

Europe’s dream of a post-historical universe is collapsing.

France faces a future of ethnic civil war at worst, and periodic terrorist attacks and political tumult at minimum. Yet its difficulties—both geopolitical and demographic—can be overcome with patience and determination.

Putin has tried turning a civil war into a counter-terrorism operation before. It’s unlikely to work out so well for him this time.

We are in the early or, at best, early-middle stages of a vicious cycle of violence.

Revisiting the 1982 novel that foretold Jeremy Corbyn’s rise—and revealed the conspiratorial worldview at the heart of contemporary Leftist politics.