A turbulent and all-too-violent 2013 across the globe illuminates just how far we are from the age-old dream of peace on earth as the…
Colin Powell, America's premier soldier-statesman, put it best. Diplomats, he said, are "the first line of offense of America's foreign…
It's fortuitous that a nuclear agreement with Iran was announced just days before Thanksgiving, a time when football crowds out foreign…
Seemingly everywhere he turns these days, President Obama is facing criticism of his foreign policy leadership. And the critics aren’t the…
From the rise of China to the wave of instability still sweeping across the Arab World, and from the crisis in the Euro-zone to the…
Professor Burns discusses the high-stakes diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States, and the diplomatic strategies at…
The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once…
In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian…
International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been
supporting reform initiatives in developing…
Even as this paper was being written and edited, U.S.-Russian relations have warmed and chilled. Today, as we are about to go to press,…