By sending troops across Ukraine’s borders, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, aims to weaken and destabilise the struggling new…
President John F. Kennedy memorably called the Cold War a “long, twilight struggle’’ — the four-decade contest in Europe for freedom and…
America’s dysfunctional budget process has been mired in federal shutdowns and debt ceiling brinksmanship for the past several years. No…
ARE AMERICANS turning inward, tiring of our immense global responsibilities, just when our leadership may be needed most?
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AS THE White House struggles to cope with a burning Middle East, another vital challenge is arising on the far horizon — China is flexing…
There will be no rest for the weary as President Obama confronts a daunting foreign policy agenda in 2014. Obama had the success of the…
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…
Financial crises cast a long shadow on investment. For nine major Asian economies, average investment as a share of GDP declined sharply…
Colin Powell, America's premier soldier-statesman, put it best. Diplomats, he said, are "the first line of offense of America's foreign…