In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al ...

SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

The view that the Chinese leadership was desperate to negotiate a trade deal, to avoid economic pain that could destabilize ...

The perception that China likely does not face an existential threat from the United States has had a stabilizing effect on ...