Furthermore, a lack of trust between the belligerents could reduce the likelihood of an agreement and complicate effective monitoring and verification. Here, the conclusions of IR research are ...

To assist a fragile 1983 ceasefire in Lebanon, the Reagan administration deployed Marines to separate the belligerents. Tragically, 241 were killed when their barracks were destroyed by a ...

This followed Burhan’s declaration that the UN envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, would no longer be tolerated in the country, a stark sign of the belligerents’ refusal to cooperate with ...

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said Paris was “not preparing to send ground troops as belligerents to the conflict, to the front” in Ukraine. In an interview with French regional ...

With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial of President Donald Trump’s high-level administration nominees – the president’s attempt to ...

This article was originally published in War on the Rocks. National security’s Burning Man took place this weekend, as foreign policy types from around the world gathered once again in Bavaria. The ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. Of course, the United States has its own notable history of territorial expansionism — ...

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.

Peacekeepers, intended to reinforce agreed-upon cease-fires and keep belligerents apart, are lightly armed for self-defense and often contain troops from many countries, usually under the United ...