Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli…
I was recently invited to lecture at several Chinese universities about "soft power"—the ability to get what one wants by attraction and…
I can only speak with authority through Feb. 15, 2009," said Michael Hayden, who was George W. Bush's last CIA director. "But at that point…
In the 1983 movie “Educating Rita,” aging British Professor Frank Bryant teaches his young, commoner student how to read Macbeth. Comparing…
The dramatic events in Beijing surrounding the brave Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, are confounding and hard to fathom at such a great…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
Using the bidding prices of participants in China's national wind project concession programs from 2003 to 2007, this paper built up a…
This week, a Pakistani court sentenced the three widows of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to 45 days in prison for immigration…
China watchers are waiting to see whether the country has engineered a soft landing, cooling down an overheating economy and achieving a…
Why did President Obama fly halfway around the world to Seoul, South Korea, for the second Nuclear Security Summit? What can the 50 world…