In the second quarter of 2024, China reported a customs surplus of $250 Billion, a services deficit of $60 billion—and a current account surplus of only $50 billion. The gap between the current ...

The negotiations are fraught with a history of enmity and a lack of trust, even as both Washington and Tehran seek a narrow ...

The Philippines’s parliamentary elections reflect yet another vote between dynastic political families, but the outcome still ...

Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria and meet with its new president is a major shift in U.S.-Syria relations, but it ...

Two things emerged clearly from this week’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit, the eighth annual gathering convened by Anders Fogh ...

The United States and China narrowly avoided a trade war by agreeing to a ninety-day pause on steep tariffs. The truce is not ...

The most populous Eastern European member states in the European Union—Poland and Romania—will hold presidential elections on ...

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Recent decades have witnessed massive growth in ongoing declarations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. IEEPA has allowed the president to arrogate dangerously excessive powers ...

Is the nascent consensus on state police in Nigeria a political ruse or a giant step towards true federalism in the country?

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Michelle Gavin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Joshua Meservey, testified on Tuesday, May 13, ...