Project on International Order and Strategy

People take part in a protest against sexual violence against women during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Susana Vera - S1AETOGPURAA

Democracy is far from dead

Bruce Jones and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

James Kirchick, The End of Europe

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

By James Kirchick

2017

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (C), flanked by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (from L), White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, National Security Council Middle East adviser Michael Bell, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (2nd R) and ?Vice President Mike Pence? (R), attends Kuwait's Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and U.S. President Donald Trump's news conference after their meetings at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1CCFBA2E30

What would an honest National Security Strategy say?

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The remains of six children, victims of El Mozote massacre, are seen during a wake in San Salvador, El Salvador, December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas - RC1A92BBFC00

U.N. human rights commissions of inquiry: The quest for accountability

December 2017

A general view of the World Trade Center construction site in New York, September 8, 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES CITYSCAPE BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E599062H01

Beyond the DC beltway, experts debate America’s role in the world

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Christopher Preble, William Ruger, and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, December 8, 2017

Lights across the earth are pictured in this NASA handout satellite image obtained by Reuters December 5, 2012. This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of EarthÕs land surface and islands. REUTERS/NASA/Handout. (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3E8C51C4001

The new geopolitics

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as they depart for Seoul, at U.S. Air Force Yokota base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RC122467C1D0

Trump, Xi, Putin, and the axis of disorder

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

An image of the Earth, based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), a sensor aboard the Terra Satellite, courtesy of NASA composed on July 11, 2005. Earth day is celebrated April 22, 2013. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - TM4E94M0Z1L01

No ignoring geopolitics—why a foreign policy centered on transnational threats isn’t enough

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

India's Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (L) speaks as U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis looks on during a joint news conference in New Delhi, India September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC1A247B5D40

The US and Doklam: Look beyond rhetoric

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - HP1ED9J17ILSG

Trump’s indecisive, ill-prepared debut at the United Nations

Thursday, September 21, 2017