This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: End of START and A New Beginning for Disarmament SI Analysis: An agreement on a follow-up treaty to the 1...
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
During the Bush years pressure on North Korea was greatly increased, not decreased, as the current White House and New York Times say. That the Obama team is taking credit now is a shame.
Mr. Obama said that if his quest for a second Nobel is successful, he would bomb North Korea. "I have just one word for you," he said. "Three-peat."
Goldman Sachs has announced that its Treasury Dept. has completed a debt for equity swap with the People's Republic of China, effectively solving most of America's problems.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Copenhagen SI Analysis: Representatives from 192 countries convene in Copenhagen for the UN climate confe...
The former head of the international nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, has left his successor, Yukiya Amano of Japan, with an underfunded and politically charged agency.
it is important to acknowledge that when Obama won the election last November he was not handed a magic wand. Instead, he was handed the shovel his predecessor had used to dig deep holes in many parts of the world.
From New York to Singapore, hundreds of major news organizations, including the New York Times, the BBC, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Voice ...
Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor A...
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
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.
