Five months after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 ended last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s political landscape has descended into chaos. Since the implementation of a ceasefire last August, the Shiite militia led by Hassan Nasrallah has agitated for greater “power-sharing” and vowed to bring down the...

Measuring failure--or the failures of measuring.

The accomplishment of some of the established benchmarksin Iraqillustrates the positive progress that has been occurring.

For many superstitious Afghans, it's no coincidence that the coming of democracy coincides with the end of the drought; it's proof, despite winter's bitter hardships, of a better future.

If the United States and Europe wish the Cedar Revolution to succeed, they must work together to undercut Syrian obstructionism and bolster Lebanese reformers.

A detailed explanation and analysis of the Iraq Study Group's seventy-nine recommendations.

The challenge of transforming Iraq"s military establishment is inextricably linked to the larger task of transforming the country"s governance.

Although this brief survey of five current case studies of UN peacekeeping is necessarily summary in nature, I believe that the evidence forms a sufficient pattern to conclude that the UN is substantially overextended and in danger of becoming more so.