Emerging Risks

Conditions seem ripe for a military clash between Washington and Beijing over the South China Sea.

A series of Chinese drills near Taiwan were designed to send a clear message to the island and China will take further steps if Taiwan independence forces persist in doing as they please, Beijing said...

Russia’s departure from quasi-democracy is beyond doubt, but it drifts rather than marches toward a debilitated and corrupt authoritarianism as Vladimir Putin’s third presidency settles into a tedious pattern. The discourse of “modernization” has been discarded and most of Dmitry Medvedev’s “innovations” have been cancelled, but Putin’s meeting with the activists of Popular Front, which was supposed to keep his …

Last June, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose Beijing as the first destination of his visit abroad after he was reelected Russian president. He made the choice to show the importance he attache…

Did Washington just give Israel the green light for a future attack on Iran via an arms deal? Did Russia just signal its further support for Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime via an arms deal? Are...

As President Obama proposes deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons arsenals, Pentagon war planners work to make these weapons more accurate and deadly.

In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, President Obama will resume a drive toward disarmament that had been largely shunted aside.

The administration struggles to reassure Eastern European allies that it won't sell them out to Russia.

On Thursday, 10,000 Russian troops began a drill simulating the massive use of nuclear missiles.

There is still a real risk that crisis will metastasize into conflict.

Nouriel Roubini thinks the rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine is going to result in a cold war between the West and Russia. This could escalate.

Rachel Marsden: PARIS -- A Cold War is purely an intelligence war.

The Ukraine crisis was not an isolated spat or a tragic misunderstanding, but rather the last straw—for both sides. The failure to achieve an acceptable post–Cold War settlement produced an unanchored relationship between the West and Russia.

American policies toward Russia today echo the mistakes that led to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.

Experts on both sides think they can turn up the pressure and prevail. This is dangerous.

The conflict between Russia and the West is evidence of a post-Cold War clash of worldviews that has never been resolved.

The Wall was a stark symbol of Russia projecting hard power into Europe — a dynamic that's on its way back.

Putin is launching "increasingly daring and increasingly stupid stunts."

Vladimir Putin sees West as gloating in post-Cold War era, trying to muscle into Russia's historical sphere of influence, analysts say.

Russia has passed the United States in the nuclear weapons category. Their new generation of tactical nuclear weapons is superior to ours, and they are expanding other capabilities. Which would be bad enough if our nuclear weapons actually worked well and were ready if we ever needed them. But we have some issues and no one wants to even work on them anymore, erroneously thinking that nuclear deterrence is an obsolete relict of the Cold War.

U.S. currently lacks strategy to counter political, information warfare threats from states and terrorists

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In The Wall Street Journal, Garry Kasparov writes that Islamists set the time machine to the Dark Ages. Putin dreams of czarist Russia. A common enemy: America.

Could a U.S. response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine provoke a confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russian war?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has memorably called the breakup of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a tragedy, and that has led many to believe that he is hoping to restore the old USSR as he consolidates control within Russia and projects military power outward into Ukraine and beyond

A growing chorus of analysts and policymakers are sounding the alarm. Will the world hear them in time?

As America lurches from crisis to crisis, our foreign policy elites can't even agree on our principal adversary