If America's allies want a say at the table when it comes to security matters and, more importantly, want to be listened to, they cannot assume that the United States will always pick up the check to maintain global order.

The absence of defense spending in the NATO draft "Strategic Concept" is indicative of NATO countries' unwillingness to address the accelerating decline in their defense budgets.

The question of the moment is not “Who lost Iraq?” but rather “Is Iraq definitely lost?”

Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected leader in the federation’s thousand-year history, died on April 23, 2007. During his presidency, Yeltsin institutionalized the vital liberties that Mikhail Gorbachev had granted only provisionally and often by default: freedom from government censorship of speech and of the press; free elections; freedom of...

The stakes for a successful transition to a democratic regime in Iraq have never been higher. The post-war requirements to replace Saddam Hussein with a representative democracy and assure long-term stability and democratic peace in the region are significant. Policymakers, defense analysts, and foreign policy specialists must consider a host...

Conflict seems likely between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government, but there is reason to hope that things will not deteriorate too far, too fast.

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are trapped in a futile cycle.

Why have a few countries, mostly in Western Europe and North America, become so much wealthier than the rest of the world's nations?