For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

The United Nations World Summit—the largest gathering of heads of state in history—will convene this month to review and debate Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s plan of reform for Turtle Bay. What are the prospects and challenges for effective UN reform? Is the September summit likely to produce meaningful changes...

Whatever Richard Haass's destiny, we're clearly scheduled for a rip-roaring debate on the U.N., which is long-since overdue.

In the end, what the new WikiLeaks documents confirm is that Obama's foreign policy plan is a mess.

On trade, President Obama has only moved the country to where it was in mid-2007. On the deficit, he has moved the country backwards.

One of the most striking things I've found in Europe these past two weeks is the absolute conviction that the Bush team is just itching to invade Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

Christian Alfonsi's book might sway conversation in a coffee shop, but it will appear silly to anyone ever involved in policy.

Podhoretz criticizes Bush's foreign policy and relatesBush's decisions to the arguments made by the 2008 presidential candidates in the upcoming election.