There have been more than a few hints that the Obama administration intends to pursue deeper nuclear arms cuts. A strategic review issued in early January reiterated the administration’s belief that U.S. deterrence requirements can be achieved with a smaller nuclear arsenal. Moreover, the United States...

There are good reasons why the rhetoric from Moscow is harsher than Beijing’s. For a start, China knows lashing out at the U.S. is counterproductive.

U.S. policymakers must kick-start a Latin America policy to be prepared to clean up the toxic waste left by 14 years of Chávez's anti-American activism.

Well worth reading, John Lewis Gaddis' biography of George Kennan nonetheless raises the basic question of whether Kennan’s concrete contributions justify the many accolades he has received.

Review of Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran, by Laurence Kelly.

Where interpretation of history is concerned, President George W. Bush backs the views of the Baltic states: the Soviet Union occupied Eastern Europe rather than liberating it. The Baltic Times published excerpts from Bush's letter to Latvian President Vajra Vike-Freiberge, where he emphasizes that the end of World War II meant liberation only for Western Europe. "In Central and Eastern Europe the war meant Soviet occupation and the annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and installation of the communist regime," Bush wrote.

Too often, new U.S. administrations assume that the fault for failed diplomacy lies more with their predecessors than with their adversary.

To visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia, armed separatist enclaves in Georgia, as I did two weeks ago, is to watch the ongoing destruction of international law and order by a brand-new modus operandi.