U.S. diplomats are pressing for the victory of the candidate who presided over Iraq at its nadir.

Attacks against Coalition and Iraqi forces in Iraq have been reduced because the security forces are more effective than they were a few months ago.

As Congress, Republican presidential candidates, and much of the U.S., South American, and European media are sounding the alarm on suspicious activities by Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, the State Department is hitting the snooze button.

From Bosnia to Iraq, the challenge of rebuilding collapsed and war-torn societies has emerged as one of the defining features of the post-Cold War world. Once perceived as errands of mercy, exercises in "nation-building" have since moved to the center of international security concerns. The United States and the United...

Steven F. Hayward reviews Presidential Command: Power, Leadership and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, by Peter W. Rodman.

Either the United Stateslifts sanctions within the next eight days or the Lockerbie widows and orphans lose--and Libya gains--$1.35 billion.

The delusion that one can settle our little disagreements with the Islamic Republic, if only the right people sit around the right conference table, has seized every administration since Carter.

Inside the political fantasies, fatuities, and naiveteof foreign service officers.