Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, the murderous truck bomber in Lebanon and the masked Palestinian "freedom...

The prevailing economic development narrative--that centrally planned economies are doomed to fail against market-oriented alternatives--may require re-examination in light of the experience of the two Koreas during the Cold War.

A review of Daniel Mandel's H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist.

AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates that the explanation for the divergent paths between North and South Korea is not so simple, while examining the factors that led to the outcome we now take for granted.

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

An unprecedented insight into the complex operations of the Korean economies in the last half of the twentieth century, Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era is a scholarly, comprehensive work and an invaluable resource for any student of economic history in Asia.

The appointment of Thomas Donilon to be the new national-security adviser should be final proof that America's foreign policy is in crisis.

The New Hampshire debate has serious ramifications for Iowa. Romney behaved like a frontrunner, one with confidence and sense of command and with adroitness to step aside from two major issue challenges. You could extrapolate from Pawlenty's performance that he is a serious candidate for the nomination. But you could extrapolate much from Bachmann’s performance that she is a serious competitor in the Ames straw poll.