Spain’s present troubles are a reflection of the challenges facing liberal democracy throughout the West.

Moscow is planning for a long campaign in Ukraine. We should be too.

Europe needs to step up its game in terms not just of its own regional security but global security as well.

Moscow’s 2016 election interference demands a serious and sober response. Instead we are getting an uninformed hysteria, empowering partisans and posers alike.

Putin needs new allies in Asia as leverage against both China and the United States, but Russia’s policies on the DPRK make that all but impossible.

There are signs of war on the horizon, and it could be the most destructive one yet.

The U.S. must be patient but take a firm line to curb Erdogan’s worst impulses.

The government should not be in the business of funding ethnic factions, which only reinforce the power of the elites.

We tend to think of militants as only existing on the far Left or Right. But perhaps the biggest problem for pragmatists in American politics is that they are developing a militancy of their own.

Managing Afghanistan and Pakistan will be no picnic as Islamist threats and China loom. India could be a promising partner for the United States, but even it requires skillful handling.