A leadership transition is scheduled in two major autocracies in 2012. Neither is likely to be a surprise. Xi Jinping is set to replace Hu…
While the economy will be the central issue of the presidential campaign, foreign policy and national security should be a close second.…
The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam. I supported the…
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N.…
The true victors of the Cold War were visionaries like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Yeltsin as well as the peoples of Eastern Europe. But…
Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill,"…
THE UNITED States has been the dominant world power since 1945, and U.S. leaders have long sought to preserve that privileged position.…
President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War. Obama can challenge President…
America's last 10 years might be called “The Decade the Locusts Ate." A nation that started with a credible claim to lead a second American…
Terror attacks on innocent people have continued around the world since 11 September 2001, but not on the scale of the 2001 attack on the…