The Russo-Serb embrace is all about geopolitical energy priorities.

If Erdogan believes it is up to any state and any region to choose its own name, then no longer should the Turkish government complain when diplomats and officials speak of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraqi Kurdistan, or even South Kurdistan.

The assassination of Serbia's prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, by a sharpshooter in broad daylight in front of a government building on Wednesday, signals that all is not well within the borders of the metropolitan power of the Balkans.

If real progress is to follow, the U.S. and its allies need to shed any romantic notions they have about a democratic Serbia that will prosper overnight and return effortlessly to the family of nations.

The price of American leadership on the cheap turns out once again to be messy and expensive.

The White House appropriately defends NATO intervention in Kosovo with essentially the same arguments used in the 1960s to defend our actions in Vietnam.

The artificial and inadequate International Court of Justice is the least useful approach to resolving separatist conflicts, as its recent ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia makes clear.