Obama's endorsement of India for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council was a grand rhetorical gesture and risks undercutting the political boost in the U.S.-Indian relationship.

President Hosni Mubarak’s program of political and economic reform was the talk of the recent Egyptian presidential elections, and accelerated economic-reform plans were essential elements of the platforms of both of the key opposition groups. Egypt’s financial-sector reforms, especially the simplification of tariff and customs regimes, have improved the climate...

The United Nations is about to elect its eighth secretary general. Which candidate offers the best hope for inaugurating the deep reform that the organization needs so badly?

The idea that the UN secretary-general can act somehow as a global representativeshould be discredited forever by the oil-for-food scandal.

A dear friend and colleague remembers Jeane J. Kirkpatrick.

How does one explain the upcoming U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing--a capital that has championed coercive abortions, and revived female infanticide?

Ultimately, the result of multilateral processes is often war by committee and peace by committee.

Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on U.S. policy options in Iraq.