Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and how different regions developed the way that they did.

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

Bush’s “Big Bang” theory of regional transformation, then Venezuela has become Trump’s test of hemispheric re-engineering.

As Washington contemplates the future of the C5+1, it must decide whether to adapt the mechanism to new geopolitical realities.

What if Thailand got mad and formed the Kingdom of Siam? See a scenario where Thailand, with some help, takes over Laos, ...

By Siavash Saffari, associate professor of West Asian studies at Seoul National University Ever since US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, the term the “new Middle East” ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

While Afghanistan and Pakistan were engaged in a war this month, an image showing an India-Afghanistan border pillar from the ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:43 a.m. Philippine time about 12 miles east of ...