Congress needs to repair the damage Trump has caused to the effectiveness and morale of the Foreign Service.
The House of Representatives is moving inexorably toward impeaching President Trump for what he has said and done in his dealings with…
States live in a world of anarchy, where no agency or institution exists to protect them from one another. As the political scientist John…
The Trump administration’s so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran is a failure. It has succeeded only in raising the risk of war…
Afghanistan has been back in the news lately, but most commentators are missing the big picture. In recent weeks there has been a raft of…
I spent the last week of August in South Korea, attending a conference on security studies sponsored by the Korea National Defense…
Roland Timerbaev, who passed away in mid-August at the age of 91, was a true giant—both as an arms controller and as a human being. I doubt…
Back in February, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the Islamic State was “100 percent” defeated and took full credit for the…
For the first time in its history, NATO does not have a strong, principled American leader to guide it.
Along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt is often hailed as one of the United States’ greatest presidents.…