Joseph Nye coined the term for the influence countries exert through attraction. Here he sets out why exclusive nationalism ...

Picture: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Just over ... Prof Ó Beacháin, whose new book Unfinished Empire: Russian Imperialism in Ukraine and the Near Abroad is out next month, said Trump’s position ...

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Like it or not, but nations and civilisations are progressing exactly by such traumatic leaps and bounds, and every post-war ...

International relations is power politics. As Thucydides wrote more than two millennia ago, the strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must. Power, however, rests on more than bombs ...

The Trump administration is currently trying to establish a new working relationship with Russia under President Putin. It is ...

The Trump administration is currently trying to establish a new working relationship with Russia under President Putin. It is ...

a 17th century Cossack leader who defected from the Russian Empire's army to side with King Charles XII of Sweden. Mazepa’s ...

Thai soldiers seized thousands of meth pills from suspected drug smugglers along the Thai-Laos border. The border patrol clashed with the alleged meth traffickers following a tip-off about an incoming ...

I am somewhat aghast to read of the latest tweet from the Chinese embassy in the United States. It reminds me of a disturbing ...

Genghis Khan built a vast empire stretching from modern Ukraine to China before dying in 1227 at around ... the last queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Mark Antony remains unknown. After Julius ...