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China is part of the solution when it comes to North Korea, but, through its continued material support of the Kim regime, it is also part of the problem.

Western pundits and nostalgic Muslim thinkers alike have built up a narrative of the caliphate as an enduring institution, central to Islam and Islamic thought between the seventh and 20th centuries. In fact, the caliphate is a political or religious idea whose relevance has waxed and waned according to circumstance.

Thousands of years ago, agriculture began as a highly site-specific activity. But as farmers acquired scientific knowledge and mechanical expertise, they enlarged their plots.

Contrary to Trump’s claim that trade agreements hurt the United States, the country remains the world’s leading user of non-tariff barriers to protect domestic producers.

The decision by India and Pakistan to allow their jets to cross the border represents a major break with the past. Yet so far both countries have taken only limited action. History suggests neither side is likely to escalate any further.

As geopolitical tensions rise and nuclear arsenals are expanded and modernized, decades of arms control agreements, security cooperation, and a growing consensus about the unacceptability of nuclear weapons are coming undone. One of the greatest security achievements of the 20th and early 21st century is thus unraveling.

Trump has insisted that “torture works.” He’s wrong. Torturers damage their victims, the United States—and themselves. Should Trump try to resurrect the practice, officials at every level must refuse to carry out illegal orders.

On the morning of October 17, 1945, thousands of protesters in Buenos Aires marched on Argentina’s main executive building, the Casa Rosada, to demand the return of Vice President Juan Perón, who had been forced to resign a week earlier. The day was hot, and many of the men took off their jackets and even their shirts. This earned them the mocking title of los descamisados - the shirtless. Perón’s supporters promptly reclaimed the insult and turned it into a badge of honor.

Amid a wave of corruption scandals, Brazilian democracy is now at its most vulnerable point since the return of civilian rule three decades ago. Only genuine reform will let Brazil’s politicians ward off disaster and regain the public’s trust.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in early 2014 was the most consequential decision of his 16 years in power. By annexing a neighboring country’s territory by force, Putin overturned in a single stroke the assumptions on which the post–Cold War European order had rested. The question of why Putin took this step is of more than historical interest.

Over the past two decades, Germany’s global role has undergone a remarkable transformation. Following its peaceful reunification in 1990, Germany was on track to become an economic giant that had little in the way of foreign policy. Today, however, the country is a major European power that attracts praise and criticism in equal measure. This holds true both for Germany’s response to the recent surge of refugees - it welcomed more than one million people last year - and for its handling of the euro crisis.

For many who arrived in Moscow in recent decades, the city had an almost narcotic effect.

Sticking with the current approach in Afghanistan, as Trump has done, is the only real option. All that’s left is for Washington to try to do it better.

The destabilizing consequences of Washington’s hasty withdrawal from Iraq were not only foreseeable, but foreseen by U.S. military planners and commanders. To avoid a similar disaster in Afghanistan, President Obama must not make the same errors.

During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, deter, and contain, a cold peace infinitely preferable to nuclear cataclysm. When US policymakers strayed from this principle, attempting to unify the Korean Peninsula in 1950 or deploying combat troops to Vietnam in the 1960s, the results proved unhappy in the extreme.

Transparency has long been a rare commodity in international affairs. But today, the forces of technology are ushering in a new age of openness that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago. Governments, journalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can now harness a flood of open-source information, drawn from commercial surveillance satellites, drones, smartphones, and computers, to reveal hidden activities in contested areas - from Ukraine to Syria to the South China Sea.

Another war between Israel and Hezbollah is almost inevitable.

Every new U.S. administration takes several months to staff itself properly, master new and often unfamiliar responsibilities, and develop a comprehensive strategy for American foreign policy. The Trump administration’s start has been especially rocky. But the administration has already executed a noticeable course shift on foreign policy and international affairs, exchanging some of its early outsider rhetoric and personnel for more conventional choices.

When it comes to foreign policy, U.S. President Obama’s critics have long accused him of being weak, indecisive, and naive. “Restoring resolve” to the Oval Office was a Republican theme in 2012, and it remains one among the 2016 GOP contenders.

The relationship between Trump and the intelligence community needs to be recalibrated. The president must understand that “alternative facts” have no place in the mission of intelligence professionals.