C’est un jour empli d’émotion, de soulagement, mais aussi de colère et de larmes. En condamnant à une peine de perpétuité un tortionnaire syrien, le tribunal allemand de Coblence n’a pas seulement dit le droit. Il envoie aussi un message percutant aux Syriens. C’est la première fois qu’ils voient un …

As the Biden administration prepares to release its National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, observers are searching for clues on how those reviews will grapple with the framework of “great-power competition” that anchored the previous administration’s high-level policy documents. That framework has achieved substantial bipartisan traction in the intervening …

Over the past several years, international policymakers, primarily in the West, as well as journalists and commentators have frequently called attention to Russia’s renewed interest in expanding its footprint in Africa. These discussions of “Russia’s return” to Africa are usually couched in a fearmongering, manichean framework of competition, ostensibly within …