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.

A new report outlines fifty-seven specific recommendations for restructuring financial regulation.

On Thursday, the Pentagon will begin detailing its plans to cut $500 billion from the military's budget over the next decade. The reason, insists President Barack Obama, is that "since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace." That's true in top-line numbers—but it's anything but true when examined strategically.

Merely monitoring Iran's foray into Latin America is the very least the United States must now do to frustrate Teheran's plans to threaten U.S. security and interests close to home.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

The economic recessions in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal will become deeper if the IMF and the EU don't recognize that the countries in the periphery suffer from solvency rather than liquidity problems--which are not amenable to correction by fiscal retrenchment alone in a fixed exchange rate system.

Last week a major international health donor had to admit it had lost over two million dollars of medicines and $34 million in cash to corruption. But the situation is worse than publicly acknowledged and is set to deteriorate further.

Recent Chinese offensives make the hope that China's emergence as a global power will be peaceful and responsible look increasingly naive, and the Obama administration cannot afford to respond to Chinese hostility with a passive approach.