DENVER – As Russian and American diplomats prepare for a Syrian peace conference, the Middle East is experiencing convulsions not seen since…

DENVER – “Insanity,” Albert Einstein is reported to have said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.…

WASHINGTON, DC – When the Bourbon monarchy was restored in 1815, the French diplomat Talleyrand is reported to have said of the Bourbons: “T…

DENVER – The most recent North Korean nuclear test is the most dangerous of the three to date. How the international community responds, in …

DENVER – The United States Constitution, which turned 225 years old last summer, is a remarkable document: the provisions of a text written …

DENVER – North Korea’s apparently successful launch of its Unha-3 rocket was inevitable after the failed launch nine months ago. There were …

DENVER – It’s over. After a year-long campaign costing $2.5-6 billion (estimates vary widely), President Barack Obama has won a second four-…

DENVER – Among the many arguments that former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević used to make to his interlocutors was that he never incit…

DENVER – For the uninitiated, especially foreign observers, the United States’ presidential election campaign can seem like an epic narrativ…

DENVER – There has been much talk about America’s decline in recent years, with the corollary that China will take its place. But, while the…

DENVER – Shortly after John Roberts, the conservative United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, sided with the Court’s four liberal justice…

DENVER – Much has been said about the similarities between the chaos in Syria and the Balkan wars of the 1990’s. But, while the prolonged ki…

DENVER – A senior Russian diplomat, in contrasting North Korea and Iran, once said to me: “The North Koreans are like neighborhood children …

DENVER – For most countries, the spectacular failure of a rocket launch would mean a return to the drawing board, or at least some introspec…

DENVER – For many foreign audiences, the United States’ primary elections for the 2012 presidential vote – which will, alas, continue to rag…

SHANGHAI – Forty years ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China. On the seventh day of “the week that changed…

DENVER – The narrative of contemporary Iraq is becoming etched in stone: United States troops are leaving, and the country is falling apart.…

DENVER – Angelina Jolie’s new film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” is about the ethnic tensions that produced the bloodiest conflict in E…

DENVER – In one sense, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il changes everything. It is by no means clear, for example, that Kim’s cod…

DENVER – For two years, President Barack Obama’s administration has tried to convey a narrative in which it is winding up wars in Southwest …

DENVER – State visits to the United States by foreign leaders often carry a whiff of domestic American politics. The October visit of South …

DENVER – Yemen’s renewed violence is just the latest sign that the Arab Spring may be joining the list of those historical contagions that, …

SINGAPORE – While NATO probably will not want to replicate its Libya intervention anywhere else anytime soon, it appears that the alliance, …

DENVER – Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy.Consider “the long war,” a bold concept em…

DENVER – US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent prognosis of a “dim” and “dismal” future for NATO has triggered much debate, but it c…