As anxiety about the end of American hegemony abounds and the U.S. unemployment rate remains high, talk about the necessity of out-competing China is on the rise.

The leading presidential candidates have zeroed in on China as a major threat to U.S. economic security and have vowed to ensure that...

The International Defense Exhibition, otherwise known as IDEX, has been held biennially in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) since 1993. It is the largest defense expo in the Middle East and North Africa and one of the biggest in the world. But far from being a one-off, it...

As democratic uprisings have spread across the Middle East in the Arab Spring, the U.S. response has been as notable for its silences as for its selective words and deeds on behalf of the democracy movements in the region.

It took weeks of incessant protest in Tunisia and Egypt before...