Worse than magpie swooping season, blowfly season or Collingwood in the finals season is the season of yellow banners on the ...

I traveled to Israel in 2019, inspired by Seth M. Siegel’s “Let There Be Water” — a book so compelling it turned me into a full-blown Israeli water management fanboy.

To counter the shock wave from the Trump administration, the EU should rise above traditional alliance mentality and ...

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His defenders view it as hardnosed realpolitik — a recognition that the strong eventually prevail, so better to cut one’s losses in the interest of a certain kind of peace. “You don’t have ...

Heads of state have to let their hair down and their guard up. Such blunt Realpolitik is not pretty, but it’s necessary, and sound-bite media culture undermines efforts to strike a compromise.

Ukrainians cannot afford academic debates between realpolitik and principles-based foreign policy. Their reality is brutal: invasion, the atrocities at Bucha, Russia’s abduction of their ...

In his March 6 op-ed “Israel Can’t Substitute for the U.S. in the Middle East,” Reuel Marc Gerecht implies that President Trump’s intention to stabilize the Middle East by relying more on ...

None of this makes a solution to the Ukrainian crisis any easier. To the contrary, with a hint of realpolitik, the Church compendium acknowledges that “there is still no international agreement ...

The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan ...