Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

As persuasive it may be on its face, the case for rethinking US Taiwan policy and, more specifically, withdrawing American security assistance, is overstated. Such a policy change would not serve the interests of the United States, Taiwan, or China; nor would it solve the problems its proponents claim they want to address.

Even while attention was focused on the more positive theme of US-India relations, a potential new crisis was brewing elsewhere in Asia, this time around Beijing and Taipei.

As European union–monetary and otherwise–advances, how will it affect relations between Europe and the United States?

Though China could sustain a productive and cooperative performance in international affairs, the nation has shown a historical tendency to follow policies directly contrary to its national interests.

This report is designed to help generate serious reflections on how best to preserve the ROC's own accomplishments as a people and a government and to enable it to choose its own future as free of coercion as possible.

All of Germany is still huffing and puffing about a statement made a week ago: Donald Rumsfeld called Germany, along with France, "old Europe".

Most great American realists are reluctant, but that does not make them any less great when they are presidents.