In light of the massive cyberattacks this week on targets from the Pentagon to the New York Stock Exchange to the National Security Agency, the following conversation with one of America's top spymasters, Mike McConnell, is very interesting indeed.

Mike McConnell was Director of National Intelligence, the supreme authority...

ISTANBUL -- The effort to forge new forms of non-Western modernity in the Muslim world has pushed Iran into bloody civil strife while Turkey swirls with persistent rumors of military plots against the Islamist-rooted government. The great historical question is whether, at the end of the day, Iran will look...

John Bolton, a leading neo-conservative official during the Bush administration, is a former U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. His latest book is Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad. He...

Earlier this week, the surprising new director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, eight-term Congressman and former Clinton White House chief of staff, was back in California to tour the high-tech satellite and missile-industrial complex of southern California. He took a lunch break to talk with the Pacific Council on International...

One of the more momentous power shifts in the last 500 years is taking place as we sift through the debris of America's busted credit bubble. The dominance of the West built up across those centuries is now yielding to the East. The latest sign of this shift is that...

ISTANBUL - "If we can show that a big Muslim nation can modernize itself with the help of friends," former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has argued on behalf of Turkey's admission to the European Union, "it demonstrates that a strong civil society, equal rights for men and women, the...

The G-20 Summit in London on April 2 marks a major power shift from the former reign of the G-7 as the executive committee of globalization. It institutionally codifies the "rise of the rest" in global governance.

In this, as in other aspects of foreign affairs, President Barack Obama is...

Of course, I agree with my passionate friend, Bernard-Henri Levy, who writes elsewhere on this page that Gaza cannot be allowed to become an "advance base for total war against Israel."

But for the current Israeli government to think it can prevent that by blowing up the whole of...

America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black president taking up residence in the White House. Barack Obama's profile, after all, is more familiar to the diverse population of today's ethnically and racially hybrid America than the fast-disappearing WASP identity of George...

In order to get beyond the stunningly superficial analyses of the Israeli-Hamas conflict one might find on MSNBC's Morning Joe, I called up Zbigniew Brzezinski -- former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Obama supporter and eminence gris of American geostrategic thinkers -- to offer him a serious opportunity...

Richard Falk, who has taught international law at Princeton for decades, is UN special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestine Territories. He was expelled by Israel two weeks ago, perhaps in anticipation of the current Israeli assault. I asked him to explain the Gaza situation for my weekly column, Global Viewpoint:

A mounting chorus of voices -- including President-elect Obama's -- are linking any economic stimulus or any related bailout of Detroit to environmental and energy independence objectives. Here, James Woolsey, a former CIA director an the energy adviser to John McCain during the campaign, adds his two cents a mile...

Every signal so far from the Obama camp on the environment is a green light. Obama never talks about a Detroit bailout without saying the industry must be retooled for fuel-efficient cars, that we need "bridge loans" to the future, not to nowhere. Yesterday at Gov. Schwarzenegger's global conference on...

Because he is the first African-American president, Barack Obama's Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark like his idol Abraham Lincoln's house in Springfield. But perhaps even Barack and Michelle themselves don't know that the spirit of social justice inhabited that house at 51st and Greenwood well...

Here are some comments I gathered on what Obama's victory means for America's image
in the world. They include Kishore Mahbubani from Singapore; Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Muslim scholar in Europe; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the author of "Infidel," Wang Jisi, dean of international relations at Beijing University; Garry Kasparov,...

In the United States we are not so familiar, as they are in Europe or Latin America, with the phenomenon of engaged intellectuals like Bernard-Henri Levy (or BHL as he is called in France) who are always there when events require definition or when conscience must be called to action....

George Soros, the financier and philanthropist, is author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means. He spoke with me in Washington, D.C., where the IMF and World Bank are meeting, on Sunday.

Nathan Gardels: Let's talk first about the...

As the markets plummet and the value of my house and investments disappear where is my
candidate? Like everyone else, my anger is mounting with plenty of blame to go around. But where is Obama's leadership?

Fine, he should keep his calm and collected demeanor, but nonethless work furiously...

Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. I spoke with him Tuesday about the Wall Street meltdown.

Nathan Gardels: Barack Obama has said the Wall Street meltdown is the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. John McCain says the economy is threatened,...

SHANGHAI -- When scholars from across China gathered here this week in the afterglow of the Olympics to assess their country's role in the world, their pride shone as bright as the waxing Mid-Autumn Festival moon. More than a patriotic triumph, the "best games ever" were seen as a knockout...