Despite a decade and a half of charitable assistance, North Korea remains on the verge of another eruption of mass hunger. So is effective international humanitarian aid to the DPRK conceivable?

Baghdad is all atwitter over the P-5+1 talks with Iran beginning today. A sandstorm kept many European and Western diplomats from landing, but the Iranians were out in full force, with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili leading the way.

A partitioning of southern and central Somalia between al Shabaab and Hizb al Islam has weakened the opposition to al Shabaab and increased the Islamist threat to the western-backed Transitional Federal Government.

The financial turmoil convulsing the Eurozone and threatening global economic recovery are a result of rising public sector debt, and these problems will likely be magnified in the coming future, especially when factoring in demographic trends.

The Amazon's indigenous groups regularly embrace technology, formal education, and modern health care. Yet Western NGOs prefer a romanticized caricature.

February and March were bad months for the Western presence in Afghanistan. First the accidental burning of the Quran and then a lone soldier’s massacre of Afghan civilians undercut U.S. efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds.

The goal of this paper is to analyze the evolution of trade relations between the United States and China, against the background of rising East Asian regionalism.

As theEuropean Unioncelebrates its fiftieth birthday, a trenchant new study of the continent"s economic history shows that reforms are needed.