For some people, the assent of the Obama Doctrine will be uncomfortable: it's designed for a world rendered in shades of gray, not the black and white of easy demagoguery. Nevertheless, subtle should not be confused with weak.
Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.
Greece is, once again, on the verge of bankruptcy and, once again, is asking its European partners for help.
Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International Monetary Fund is imposing its "austerity measures" on the outer circle of the European Union.
Iran could trigger a nuclear arms race in an already volatile region. Would Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey simply sit by while Iran achieves nuclear-weapons capability? Hardly.
This week, the Israeli arrogance seems to be facing a reality check. The next logical step is for the EU countries to refuse products produced in East Jerusalem.
In a recent letter to Armenian American organizations, Pres. Obama once again played shameful word games with the term genocide.
Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.
Intel, the world's largest microchip maker, said Thursday it has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), its much smaller archriv...
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
The European Union is dangling the online advertising industry outside a window and threatening to drop it on its head over the issue of privacy.
As the U.S. unemployment rate climbs toward 10 percent and the economy faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery process, Congress and the last two admin...
Unions are all-powerful in Europe, and GM dropping the sale and the resultant job losses could wind up looking like a huge defeat for Germany and the entire EU.
In contrast to the developing world's clear, specific position, the E.U. seems to act as if these climate change negotiations just started, as if talks haven't been going on for years since Kyoto.
Why is Blair likely to be the first President of Europe? Because he is just what Europe's ruling financial elite wants -- nominally a man of the center-left who can be trusted to continue business as usual.
Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts. In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...
The complexities of the headscarf debate eludes many Americans, for whom freedom, tolerance, and diversity are axioms of our democracy. We would ask, why is the headscarf such a big deal?
There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.
By Joelle Fiss Human RIghts First Pennoyer Fellow BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 - "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled for...
There was some good progress in Thursday's international negotiation sessions with Iran. But anyone who imagines the problem is solved is quite delusional.
Before the US hands over a single dollar of development aid to Zimbabwe, there should be an internationally supervised program of government reform and audit, and a lifting of media restrictions.
