For small European countries such as Greece, being headline news is not a blessing. It usually means that they have suffered a major natural disaster or are wrestling with political, economic or social turmoil. Greece today is front and center in a storm of bad news.
Greece’s problem is mainly economic and the statistics are stark: [...]

The twin pillars of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy framework are a willingness to negotiate with adversaries and to collaborate with other nations to bring about stability and peaceful change.
This approach is idealistic and realistic at the same time. It assumes that engagement is a necessary first step, and negotiation is always better than autistic [...]

The twin pillars of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy framework are a willingness to negotiate with adversaries and to collaborate with other nations to bring about stability and peaceful change.
This approach is idealistic and realistic at the same time. It assumes that engagement is a necessary first step, and negotiation is always better than autistic [...]

We are used to seeing domestic policy debates played out as part of the normal push-and-shove of the legislative process. A good example is the seemingly endless and very public health care policy debate. But we are less used to seeing Executive Branch foreign-policy reviews played out practically in the open, as with the ongoing [...]

The Obama ‘change’ in American foreign policy emphasizes realism, engagement and negotiation; multilateralism, “smart power,” and collective, concerted attacks on global issues. While the new approach is apparent in the President’s exceptional rhetoric, it may embrace expectations for others that will prove unrealistic.  Nowhere is it being tested more severely than in the Middle East [...]

President Obama in speech after speech during his recent overseas visits has been hammering on the dual themes of arresting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and also advocating, as an eventual but nonetheless desirable objective, the reduction, deactivation – and eventually total elimination –  of  nuclear arsenals around the planet.
Nuclear weapons were employed [...]

In a recent interview with Der Spiegel, the German weekly asked Henry Kissinger whether he thought the world would soon enter an era without major wars or conflicts. His response echoed the theme of his Harvard doctoral dissertation, in which he wrote upon the Congress of Vienna and the genesis of the 19th Century European [...]

Up until the June 12th election in Iran, most observers outside that country thought there was a good chance that former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi would unseat President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A week before the election, most experts believed it would certainly be close, perhaps there would be a run-off between the two, but few, [...]

President Obama’s April visit to Turkey won strong praise for reaching out to the Muslim world. He clearly stated that the United States was not at war with Islam, and its involvement in the Middle East is not solely a matter of opposition to a “fringe ideology” promoted by al-Qaeda. America’s engagement would be based [...]

President Obama’s April visit to Turkey won strong praise for reaching out to the Muslim world. He clearly stated that the United States was not at war with Islam, and its involvement in the Middle East is not solely a matter of opposition to a “fringe ideology” promoted by al-Qaeda. America’s engagement would be based [...]