The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years.
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10 Reasons Why Russia Still Matters
House Speaker John Boehner recently delivered a fiery indictment of Russia and the Obama administration’s entire “reset” in Russian policy. From the vantage point of two longtime Russia watchers — on
The End of the American Era
THE UNITED States has been the dominant world power since 1945, and U.S. leaders have long sought to preserve that privileged position.
Obama Should Test Iran’s Nuclear Offer
President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War.
Tiny Qatar’s Big Plans May Change Mideast
Qatar, a country of fewer than 2 million people set on a peninsula smaller than Connecticut, seems an unlikely candidate to become a regional power.
Sacred and Secular: Politics and Religion Worldwide.
Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century – Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud – all predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance an
America's Costly War Machine
Ten years into the war on terror, the U.S. has largely succeeded in its attempts to destabilize Al Qaeda and eliminate its leaders.
Preventing the Next Fukushima
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlike
Why a Rebel Victory in Libya is Better than a Negotiated Settlement
Following months of fighting to defeat Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s rebels are steadily consolidating power following their victory.
Still Vulnerable in 2011
Terror attacks on innocent people have continued around the world since 11 September 2001, but not on the scale of the 2001 attack on the United States, which claimed more than 2500 lives.
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