The vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council shows India can use its foreign policy to promote democracy in Asia.

Every day patients receive treatments that do not work properly. For many this means no relief from symptoms, but for some death is the result. Yet concerted action against such products is limited. Before we can discuss why that's the case, I will attempt to explain what kind of products don’t work, and what we should call them.

Although Russian president Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to offer President George W. Bush unqualified support in the War on Terror in the wake of the September 11 attacks, U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated badly in the past five years. With disagreements on Iran, the Middle East, the democratic...

U.S.-Russian relations are in bad shape. From the democratization and foreign policy orientation of the post-Soviet states to missile defense and energy and pipeline politics, more often than not Washington and Moscow find themselves on opposite sides. The Kremlin is blaming the United States for Georgia’s reckless attempt to reclaim...

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U.S.-Russian relations are in bad shape. From the democratization and foreign policy orientation of the post-Soviet states to missile defense and energy and pipeline politics, more often than not Washington and Moscow find themselves on opposite sides. The Kremlin is...

A self-serving city council has let the air out of Detroit's tires.

Although the Roussely Report is exemplary in many respects, it has one fundamental weakness: its assumption that, when multiple French nuclear corporations express interest in the same contract, they should join together for a shared bid.

With the upcoming Duma elections this December and the presidential contest in March 2008, the Kremlin appears to be both confident and worried. President Vladimir Putin continues to enjoy high approval ratings and faces no genuine political rivals, yet authoritarian tendencies have risen sharply. Political groups failing to adhere to...