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Think November will bring an end to the shenanigans of the 2016 election cycle? Don’t hold your breath. If there is one thing that drives editors batty, it’s an author who can’t keep his [...]

With 28 countries it is easy to get lost in the geopolitical maelstrom that is the European Union. Over the next few days (and couple of years) there will be literally thousands of stories to [...]

President Obama kicked off a trip to Asia with a visit to Vietnam, where he announced that the United States is fully lifting the arms embargo on Hanoi. In a joint press conference with [...]

During post-presentation Q&A at an event last week, an acquaintance decided to have a bit of fun at my expense by slipping a question on Albertan separatism into the deck. Considering that [...]

Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bid Salman laid out part of his country’s strategic challenge in an April 25 interview. “We have a problem with military spending,” the prince told Al Arabiya. “When [...]

Outside of the political protestations regarding Obama’s visit to Cuba (it is a presidential election year, after all), the United States has a strong strategic interest in returning Havana to [...]

Chinese President Xi Jinping is already poised to be the most powerful man in Chinese history after Mao Zedong, and proposed reforms to the country’s paramilitary police force would all but [...]

Coordinated terror attacks rocked Brussels this morning, following a successful raid earlier this week that saw French and Belgian security forces capture the surviving would-be suicide bomber [...]