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El Salvador’s president is cracking down on all dissent while he’s popular, in order to hold onto power when he no longer is.
Trump hoped his tariffs on Brazil would help Bolsonaro avoid accountability for his illegal attempt to stay in power in 2023.
Trump’s tariff letters appear to make the process of diplomacy public and therefore transparent. But there are other reasons ...
A border crisis has plunged Thailand back into political instability, in part because Cambodia’s ex-leader is stirring up ...
The BRICS has rapidly expanded over the past two years. Judging from this year’s summit, the increased membership appears to ...
Fueled by rentier capitalism, the EU is facing a rapidly growing wealth divide. Familiar remedies are unlikely to solve the ...
A ceasefire brokered in 2022 is still holding, but Yemen increasingly risks sliding back into conflict or hardening into ...
The international community learned from the atrocities committed 30 years ago in Bosnia’s civil war, even if it hasn’t ...
Whether Trump’s end goal is to definitively decouple the U.S. and Chinese economies or find some modus vivendi for the two ...
West African governments are scrambling to make the most of a new gold rush. But the boom is also exacerbating existing ...
Despite Trump’s erratic approach, most countries currently have more incentive to negotiate with Washington than they do to ...
Gnassingbe’s latest power grab in Togo was met with rare public protests. And unlike past mobilizations, it was young people ...