The stakes could not be higher, substantively and politically, as we enter the fall stretch.

For East Asian politicos, there’s not that much to grab headline attention in the world’s most economically dynamic region. Or maybe there is.

Jane Perlez's and William Wan's articles in today's papers (the New York Times and Washington Post, respectively) stand as a minor but important milestone in elite understanding of international relations in the 21st century. Though they provide only a summary of a Brookings monograph - the product...

While the rest of us watching defense issues were still trying to make sense of what the new Pentagon budget actually means, the Chinese doubled down on their push to become Asia’s most powerful country.

For decades, investors have spent countless hours speculating about the Federal Reserve's agenda on interest rates. Market watchers study every adjective in often-cryptic Fed statements for clues about the outlook for monetary policy.

For months now, Kremlin-watchers have been observing--mostly with malicious amusement--the agony of top government functionaries as they try to guess the victor of the presidential contest and position themselves accordingly.

The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.

Where do we stand with respect to global imbalances? What are the remaining dangers and the lessons of the past year?