An especially damaging example of Washington’s lack of strategic empathy or even basic consideration regarding another major ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...

As the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse, hardline communists made a desperate bid to hold onto power. This is ...

America's transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the last years of the ...

This week marks the anniversary of both the Cold War’s nadir, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and its end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Hugh Sidey writes on one of its lowest points, ...

Political science scholars emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions in a Wednesday event marking the launch ...

The European Union gave its top human rights award Wednesday to two journalists imprisoned in their native countries of ...

Berlin dramatically scaled back its defense spending after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. However, it is now assuming a far greater role in NATO’s defense. Germany remains committed to ...

MAD or “mutually-assured destruction” is truly mad. The idea that a nuclear strike by one nation must result in worldwide Armageddon is insane. This theory of the Cold War, which cost untold billions ...