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

The artificial and inadequate International Court of Justice is the least useful approach to resolving separatist conflicts, as its recent ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia makes clear.

Today's budding U.S.-China security rivalry will shape the region's future and the future of the world.The United States needs to transform America's Asian alliances into an integrated, net-centric system.

On February 3, 2008, Boris Tadić was reelected president of Serbia on a platform calling for greater integration with Europe. Shortly afterwards, and as expected, Kosovo’s prime minister announced that the Kosovar parliament would within days declare Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Kosovo’s imminent declaration presents a significant diplomatic challenge for...

Russian media Monday accused the security services of placing a "mole" among radical Chechen rebels who seized a Moscow theatre last October in a siege that ended with 129 deaths.

In the past decade, Southeast Asia has faced a series of crises: the Asian financial crisis, Islamic and separatist terrorism, continued instability in recently democratized states, the erratic security behavior of the military junta in Burma, and the 2004 tsunami disaster. Despite Southeast Asia's progress toward democratization and economic development...

On Friday, August 8, the longstanding tensions between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia escalated dramatically. Reports indicate that late last week, Georgia’s staunchly pro-Western government launched an offensive to reclaim the territory, shelling secessionist militias and sending forces into the city of Tskhinvali. Russia, which...

Canada held an election last Monday and the result was anything but boring. The headline story is that the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has headed minority governments since 2006, won an absolute majority of seats, 167 of 308, in the House of Commons. The Conservatives' triumph offers a couple of lessons that may be relevant to U.S. Republicans.