Many Americans see trade as a peril rather than an opportunity.

In Washington, the season of budget cuts is in full blossom. Unfortunately, leaders of both political parties may soon agree to further slash the defense budget.

The lessons of Pearl Harbor are many, as is the responsibility to honor the heroic dead of that day.

The rapid ticking of the Iran nuclear clock also marks an increasingly dark hour for the United States and its closest allies and partners, because it coincides with a third clock that Pollack did not imagine in 2004: the timetable of retreat set in motion by Barack Obama.

In withdrawing all but a tiny few U.S. forces from Iraq and indicating that he is weighing an accelerated drawdown from Afghanistan, President Obama is reversing a generation’s course in American strategy and policy.

While there might be symbolic appeal to the idea of China riding to Europe's rescue, the reality would be less romantic: a relatively poor country would be sending its savings to a collection of wealthy ones.

Scholars and analysts can help policymakers advance U.S. interests in Asia by assessing the dynamic Sino-U.S. balance of power in the region.

Faced with the likelihood of spreading violence and Iranian influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, will the next president make the hard choices to confront those threats to American national security, or will he or she seek to remain aloof?