The U.S. has been a champion of the rules-based international order for 80 years, a set of bedrock principles governing how nations of the world should respect one another.

February 6th sees the start of the Winter Olympics in Italy.

What turns rivalry into war? History suggests it is rarely ideology or ambition alone. More often, it is fear, miscalculation ...

In 416 BC in its war against Sparta, Athens instructed the fleet to break the small island of Melos’ alliance with its enemy. The Athenian historian Thucydides constructed the ensuing debate between ...

In 432 B.C.E., a year before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, the Megarians received an unusual decree from the ...

What surprised me most was how deeply connected everyone felt to their Greek identity, even across generations and continents ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The ...

Two widely publicised speeches were given last week at the World Economic Forum at Davos; one by Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, the other by US President Donald Trump.

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Canadian PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech on today’s global rupture evoked Thucydides on power rivalry and the role of middle powers as a potential counterforce. The US-China dynamic may demand that ...

I am only 7 days late in the 24-hour news cycle. Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega were arrested after Belarus air traffic ...

Canadian PM Carney cited Ancient Greece's Thucydides at Davos, warning middle powers to act as tariffs and supply chains ...