Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

An end-of-year roundup of recommendations, many from Cipher Brief experts, from our "Under Cover" Book Review series.

The close of 1914 brought a momentary pause in the grinding combat at a World War I battlefield. Carols were sung and games ...

On December 24, 1914, in the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly swept across areas of ...

After two years of intense courtship, progressing from warm words to vital weapons, summits in Pyongyang to 11,000 soldiers ...