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The inauspicious history of inexperienced presidents personally negotiating with confident adversaries.

In the absence of a serious political challenge from the left or right, Canada’s prime minister is suffering from self-inflicted damage.

Including the Chinese government.

If the center-right doesn't reclaim its mission, it will soon be swallowed by populism.

Mohammed bin Salman's consolidation of power is making Saudi Arabia a more unpredictable U.S. ally than ever before.

An upstart far-right party in the Netherlands threatens to entrench xenophobia in one of Europe’s most progressive countries.

My government wants to ban accusations of Polish wartime complicity for the sake of honoring history.

The German chancellor's most likely successors are both women — but the similarities end there.

Nobody's throwing goodbye parties at Langley for the outgoing boss.

Brussels needs to admit that Warsaw's democratic charade is over.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince knows his country needs an economic overhaul, but his plans don’t add up.

The chaos of Italy's election is the result of long-standing trends — and a preview of what's to come in Europe.

From Russia to Central Asia, Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative triggers bad memories of Chinese imperialism.

The EU is undermining its credibility by choosing stability over democracy in Serbia

The front-runner to lead Europe’s central bank doesn't seem to believe in central banking.

Trump's threatened tariffs won't hurt China. They'll goad the EU to retaliate and could spark a global trade war that won't end well for anyone.

A party with no sense of what it stood for was doomed from the start.

"The Death of Stalin" turns tyranny into comedy.

The United States invaded the Levant 15 years ago – but the region’s scorched-earth ideology has kept the fire burning.

The "axis of adults" has been running foreign policy, but the national security advisor was quickly pushed to the kids' table.