Commemorating a historic event is one thing - actually fixing its legacy is another. Today, the world's attention is on the Berlin Wall. Twenty years...
Having decided to eschew modernity, Pyongyang has rendered assessment of North Korea's political intentions an art best likened to divining the truth through an examination of scattered chicken bones.
If Japan truly wants to serve as a "bridge" between the United States and Asia or the West and East, it will need good relations with both sides.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Like Him or Not, Karzai's the Man in Afghanistan SI Analysis: After opposition candidate Abdullah Abdulla...
For real progress to be made in resolving the longest-standing adversarial relationship the United States has with any country in the world, journalists would be well-advised to sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut.
It's become commonplace to say we can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. There's a grain of truth to this, but it doesn't mean we can't still make complete nuclear disarmament a reality.
So far this year, there has been a tendency to vocalize intent and engage in convenient can-kicking, rather than actionable resolve. That's not timidity -- that's testing the state of the ship's rudder.
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in International Affairs: The Real Deal with Iran The 5+1 (UN Permanent Security Council Members plus Germany) were a...
Nothing will shape domestic life and prosperity in the United States more than the emergence of China as a global economic superpower.
This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.
Now that just about the entire world has weighed in on whether or not President Obama deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the fact remains: he was awarded the prize.
China is emerging as the new power in the global economic pantheon, and their embrace of Russia is a clear sign that they wish to become less engaged with the U.S. rather than more.
Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: North Korea Back at the Table, maybe SI Analysis: North Korea says that it will return to six party talks...
"...I am on my own journey/battle with forgiveness...and I find it very difficult. I feel as if I have reached a standstill. ...perhaps there is a d...
A mixed metaphor lurks behind the Obama 's foreign policy. On the one hand, there's his "open hand" that rewards the unclenched fist. On the other hand there's the other hand, the one that he keeps close to his chest.
Obama's priorities are spot on. Nuclear threats are growing. The previous administration's military approach to the problem failed.
What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.
News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.
Imagine this for some must-see TV: a panel comprised of Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh facing President Obama, perhaps acco...
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
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