Cold War

Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus following a disputed election

China continues to lag behind the pace of imports from the U.S. needed to meet the terms of the two nations’ trade deal, amid a rapidly worsening diplomatic standoff that’s sparking global fears of a new Cold War.

While the Chinese authorities are supportive of its use, US lawmakers are wary of privacy limits being breached

Trump era is providing a case study in what happens when competence and respect for processthose underestimated qualities of the establishmentgo by the wayside, and policy is whipsawed by the impulses of an erratic president

The best actress award was given to Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova for playing a jobless single mother from post-Soviet Central Asia adrift in Moscow in Sergey Dvortsevoy's 'Ayka'

A game theorist would find striking similarities in the US-China trade war to two standard situationsthe game of chicken and the prisoners' dilemma

What the Cold War meetings and Donald Trump's potential ones have in common is an open agenda and lack of the painstaking months of diplomatic preparation that precede summits with more formal, treaty signing goals

The heating up of the new Cold War has shown that as the prospect of a world free of nuclear weapons recedes into the distant horizon

At two minutes to midnight, the Doomsday Clock is at its closest to catastrophe since 1953, due to dangers of a nuclear holocaust from North Korea's weapons program, US Russian entanglements, South China Sea tensions

In October 1967, as the heat of the Cold War radiated worldwide, the Outer Space Treaty came into force. What is its legacy?