While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a…
Following months of fighting to defeat Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s rebels are steadily consolidating power following their…
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…
As America looks back on this 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the war in Iraq looms large — and usually not in a good way. At…
Back in 2009, right after Barack Obama took office, I published the following prediction in the Australian journal American Age:
"To be…
In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended American isolationism and brought our country into a global war that resulted in a…
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War…
Was 9/11 a turning point in world history? It is too soon to tell. After all, the lessons of World War I looked very different in 1939 than…
The rising concern over global food price volatility has put agriculture at the centre of international cooperation. But unlike the 1950s,…