With his dramatic victory in Tuesday’s election, President Obama must now pivot quickly to address three urgent foreign policy issues that…
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis – those 13 days in October 1962 that were probably the closest the world…
Amid all the grandstanding about drawing a “red line” that Iran shouldn’t cross in its uranium enrichment program, a different kind of line…
The cartoon of a bomb that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu displayed two weeks ago at the UN has become a target of ridicule. Israeli…
After a patently sham trial, a Turkish court on Friday handed down lengthy jail sentences to more than 300 military officers convicted of…
The murder of a US ambassador is a shocking event, so rare that the last time it happened the Russians were in Afghanistan. The Libyan…
The recent revolutions in Libya and Syria offer a bitter lesson: to generate outside intervention against a dictator, armed rebellion is…
Are we are on a collision course to war with Iran? With negotiations flagging, sanctions inconclusive, and an intransigent Iran speeding…
Parisians are used to a certain amount of inertia in August, when the locals vacate and leave their city to the tourists. There are no…
Twenty years ago Russia and fourteen other newly-independent states emerged from the ruins of the Soviet empire, many as nations for the…