In 2013 NATO was an alliance in search of a mission. Events in Ukraine and Syria have led some to talk in terms of a revived Cold War. Does this restore NATO raison d’etre? We argue that the new crises do not so much answer the question as to make it more urgent.

It’s Africa’s Century—for Better or Worse
Asia gets the attention, but the real economic revolution is the inevitable growth of an overlooked continent. In the coming decades, we face a revolutionary