For more than half a century, Pakistan and the United States have found themselves partners in common crises. The U.S.-Pakistani alliance is strange, however, because both sides maintain fundamentally different and often mutually exclusive understandings of their national interests.

The Internet is already a major factor in Russian politics--and its influence is growing almost daily.

DDT has been more effective against malaria than any other intervention, but inaction and political hostility may halt its recent renaissance.

The decline of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation signals the waning appeal of a set of beliefs which commanded the loyalties of over one-third of the Russian electorate.

Background on the British Indian agency that managed telegraph lines in Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The destruction of Zimbabwe, like that of Nicaragua two decades earlier, offers important cautionary lessons for other developing countries.

Iran'sMarch 2008 parliamentary elections are bound to mark a milestone in the slow takeover of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken advantage of Iranian millenarianism in a well-orchestrated power play to bypass the established clergy.