Global military spending this year has reached its highest level since the end of the Cold War, highlighting a new phase of geopolitical challenges and threats, according to research from the ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

Examine the origins of great power competition in the Cold War. In the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a global competition for allies, influence, and security. To many ...

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to strengthen their defenses against any Russian attack. By Andrew Higgins Reporting ...