The killing of the Italian ambassador to the DRC and the lifting of U.S. Treasury sanctions against an Israeli businessman in the final hours of the Trump administration has again focused international attention on the interlocking crises in the DRC.

The highlights from Kishida Fumio's busy week in Washington.

I spoke with Matthew Fuhrmann, associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University, visiting associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperatio…

The crisis in Nigeria offers a rare opportunity to rethink the moral foundations of the Nigerian state.

As China turns the page from its reform era, the Chinese Communist Party's official discourse increasingly references the country's imperial past. 

This blog post is part of a series entitled Is Japan in Decline?, in which leading experts analyze Japan’s economy, politics, and society and give their assessment of Japan’s future. Two decades of …