Kiron K. Skinner, a professor of history, political science, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered the final Bradley Lecture in the 2002-2003 series on June 2, 2003.

The demise of U.S.-Soviet détente provides an interesting puzzle: More agreements were signed and greater U.S.-Soviet contact occurred during the 1970s than had occurred up to that point in the Cold War, yet détente soon gave way to a renewal of Cold War tensions. Scholars argue that despite its apparent...

India and Pakistan have announced that peace talks will resume. But until Pakistan rethinks its policy on terrorism, don't expect real progress.

William F. Buckley Jr.was presented today with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Forcing the Islamic Republic to be accountable to its people can catalyze diplomacy's success.

President Obama's Pakistan policy is going up in smoke, and the bitter irony is that even as Obama is trying to get out of the war in Afghanistan, he may be heading us into one in Pakistan.

In hindsight we can now appreciate just how well Gerald Ford served his country.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are fighting not over policy but personality--a cleavage much more likely to divide voters.