The mainstream media thought the major headline from the APEC summit was the U.S.-China agreement on climate change. They’re wrong. Russia’s two big pipeline projects to China have the potential to reshape the global energy and security landscape.

An Austrian novelist once wrote “Home is where one was a child.” Stories from around the world illustrate how immigration is a very difficult moral issue for liberal democracies today.

The question for NATO leaders is not only how to shore up the deterrence that remains, but how to restore the deterrence that has been lost.

Russia naval and airspace incursions in the Baltic Sea area are aimed at deterring Sweden and Finland from increasing their cooperation with NATO.

While it is difficult to see into the future at all and impossible to make detailed predictions, everything we know about history and human development suggests that the 21st century is unlikely to be a quiet time in international relations.

British defense cuts have reached a tipping point, and are now endangering the Special Relationship.

In U.S. cities struggling with depopulation and crime, controversial initiatives to attract immigrants have reversed the blight.

The sacking of Georgia’s pro-West Defense Minister and the resignation of its Foreign Minister has thrown the government into disarray and called into question the country’s Euro-Atlantic orientation.

Some stories of interest—”and other curiosities”—from around the web.

Earlier signs of a softening stance by China have been leading up to a notable shift in Chinese diplomacy at this week’s APEC meeting. China, however, is just biding its time.