In words and actions, key foreign policy decision-makers within the Trump administration seem to be signaling a shift away from the United States’ global leadership role. If borne out, these changes ...

The world has witnessed the deterioration of the rules-based international order that emerged at the end of World War II ...

China’s nuclear ambitions may lead to a tripolar landscape and further proliferation as it seeks to place itself equal to the U.S. and Russia. "It's one thing to have a kind of bilateral nuclear ...

Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they warn, could lead to not only global races for new armaments but also thermonuclear war.

I’m stealing the “tripolar world” term from my friend Jay Pelosky, head of TPW Advisory, who began using it a while back as part of his regionalised investment strategy, which assumes that the US, ...

In terms of political power equations, the world has seen it all in about a century – “multipolar” to “bipolar” to “unipolar” (and perhaps even “powerless” for a while). If events of the recent past ...