The Kremlin is sending a message to the West’s Russia experts: if you want to talk to us, you need to toe the line.

Burma is newly enmeshed in Asia’s Game of Thrones, a development far more important than the topics Western media typically choose to focus on.

The FIFA indictments tell us something about the way in which the United States exerts its power on the global stage, and how that power is experienced by the rest of the world, particularly by many countries outside the West.

Moderate Republicans have failed to thrive in part because over the past half-century they haven’t built a political and intellectual infrastructure to match the conservative wing of the party.

The possible poisoning of Russian journalist Vladimir Kara-Mursa has a cold-blooded context.

Why does the Anglo-American special relationship endure? Because, as Thucydides pointed out, adversaries make allies.

Why are parts of Germany formerly under the enforced secularism of the Communist party rediscovering charismatic religion?

Radical Islamists, earnest to a fault, have no sense of humor. It’s a shortcoming we should exploit.

How will the EU affect the future of the Anglo-American special relationship?

An analysis of the Kremlin’s “Weimar syndrome”, and why so many Western elites believe in it.