Since his inauguration as president of Taiwan this May, Ma Ying-jeou has pursued a three-pronged strategy. First, he has attempted to improve relations with Beijing. Second, he has tried to secure a more meaningful international participation for Taiwan. Third, he has continued to seek arms from the United States to...

Panelists will discuss the Taiwan Relations Act and other current issues regarding Taiwan and U.S. relations.

The first post-Saddam school year is nearing an end in Iraq, and while textbooks have been edited to remove the most egregious of the regime’s lies, much more must be done to provide a foundation for Iraqi democracy. The challenge is enormous: how to introduce critical thought? Liberal arts? Fact-based...

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Since the June 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen democracy movement, the Chinese people have shown a deep ambivalence about liberal democracy and U.S. efforts to promote democratization. The emerging middle class that many Americans expect to be...

“Rational control” is the subjection of society to reason as opposed to superstition, prejudice, or tradition, with the aim of getting us to behave better. Alexis de Tocqueville says this idea or practice began with the French monarchy; a more recent example is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and...

Starting with 9/11 and continuing with the quagmire in Iraq, the West was forced to interact more fully with the civilization of Islam. In The Universal Hunger for Liberty (Basic Books, 2004), Michael Novak sets forth a new model for facing this very challenge—and for healing a still...

North Korea--a failed state with a vast army and weapons of mass destruction--is home to an expansive population who face starvation and death. As a result, North Koreans are fleeing their totalitarian state in unprecedented numbers. In 2001, an estimated 300,000 North Koreans left their country to...

The Ukrainian Supreme Court has decided: the run-off election was falsified and on December 26, Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych will face each other again in a repeat of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections. Will the winner, whoever he may be, re-unite the country? Can Ukraine's "Orange...