Emerging Risks

The revival of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is nearing an agreement. Iran’s top negotiator Ali Bagheri Kan...

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge says Australia should be taking the threat of China “very seriously”. “We should take them as ...

The facility in Natanz is built deep under a massive mountain, making it extremely difficult for the IDF to ever bomb it.

The messages from Iran’s key military leaders and its allies in Lebanon are clear.

Beijing wants the world to embrace its authoritarian model. But the country is also part of a highly integrated global economy. A Q&A with Elizabeth Economy.

Evidence suggests Russia is planning "the biggest war in Europe since 1945", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.He told the BBC's Sophie Raworth in an int...

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China ranked 12th on 2021 Global Innovation Index, commerce ministry points out in calling for an objective approach from the US.

Former White House National Security Council John Bolton said the Biden administration needs to call on China to denuclearize North Korea

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military on Friday announced massive drills of its strategic nuclear forces, a stark reminder of the country's nuclear might amid Western fears that Moscow might be preparing to invade Ukraine .

What we mean by 'consensus' may not always be clear to the people we're talking to - unless we clarify our terms, we may not reach people

Congress gave the Biden administration two years to develop a strategy. One year in, there is little evidence that the work has started.

Gen. Jack Keane weighs in on a potential cyberattack on the US from Russia and its strategy on Belarus on ‘Your World.’ #FoxNews #YourWorldSubscribe to Fox N...

In 1914, a single bullet fired into the chest of Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist quickly and unexpectedly exploded into World War I.

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Hezbollah chief reportedly left secure Beirut bunker to visit Tehran, where Iranians told him they expect his Lebanese terror group to respond militarily if Israel hits facilities

US economy in trouble? in the year ahead we could see real-world financial market stress as a result of bubbles bursting on several fronts.

Japan and Australia’s new alliance marks the beginning of a new era in Japanese security policy, with Tokyo taking on a more active role.

A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one.

For its entire nuclear history, China has been content with a relatively modest arsenal. That’s now changing.

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

A new analysis shows that a Jan. 11 North Korean missile test could well be a hypersonic weapon - and one that holds American bases in Japan in a new level of danger.

Shi Zhengli has spent years at the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching coronaviruses that live in bats. Her work has come under fire as the world tries to understand where covid-19 came from.

On Feb. 8, in a jarring answer to a question from the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin said allowing Ukraine to join NATO would increase the prospects...

While Russia may receive some tough words and even sanctions, world nations are getting out of Ukraine as fast as possible.

The art of statecraft is to find points of cooperation and coercion that shape the competition to avoid inadvertent escalation.

Iranian and Taliban officials have issued conflicting claims about how water from a dam in southwestern Afghanistan will be used, amid worsening shortages in Iran and protests.

Iran’s hard-liners are having a moment of patriotic jubilation with the unveiling of a new long-range missile with a menacing name.

“The worst does sometime happen.”-Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Playwright World System Structure and National Security More worrisome than other perils, North Korea’s recent missile tests suggest steadily rising risks of a nuclear war. In the end, these grave risks are not per se expressions of individual leadership personality. Rather, they reflect the anarchic structure of world […]