PARIS – The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilit…

PARIS – In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Sp…

BERLIN – Berlin’s Tegel Airport, which still greets most of the passengers arriving in the capital of Europe’s leading economic power, is ou…

PARIS – In his masterpiece Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger describes, probably too idyllically, the international balance-of-power system that, f…

PARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, French troops…

PARIS – Are non-Europeans much less pessimistic about Europe than Europeans themselves? Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced…

PARIS – China may be just a few years away from becoming the world’s leading economic power, and America’s strategic centrality may be on th…

PARIS – Madrid and Warsaw recently looked very similar: both were the sites of massive demonstrations. But the crowds gathered at Europe’s w…

PARIS – With every passing week, the Syrian conflict increasingly resembles the Spanish Civil War. The images of warplanes bombing civilians…

PARIS – To find a glimmer of hope on the Israel-Palestine question has become difficult, if not impossible. Most Israelis now believe that a…

PARIS – In 2005, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a prestigious exhibit sponsored by the Chinese Government, “The Three Emperors,” ce…

PARIS – From Hong Kong to São Paulo, and all points between, one word dominates all others among big investors: Greece. Will the Greeks…

PARIS – The euro, many now believe, will not survive a failed political class in Greece or escalating levels of unemployment in Spain: just …

PARIS – Rousseau versus Hobbes: on the cover of the French magazine Philosophie, the two leading contenders in France’s upcoming presidentia…

PARIS – “One must fight both terrorists and the causes of terrorism with the same determination.” That formula, coined ten years ago in the …

PARIS – And the next French President will be…the Socialist Party’s candidate François Hollande. A month ago, any prediction uttered with su…

PARIS – Is democratic time too slow to respond to crises, and too short to plan for the long term?At a time of deepening economic and social…

PARIS – Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia’s powerful have at…

NEW YORK – At “ground zero”in lower Manhattan, two empty spaces will be filled by water cascades, memorializing in a serene and respectful w…

PARIS – National repentance is in the news again, as it has been with remarkable frequency in recent years. In 2008, Australia’s then-Prime …

PARIS – A few days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab television network, that he would use his…

PARIS – With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequal…

PARIS – Japan in March 2011 and Norway in July 2011: any comparison between the madness of nature and the pure madness of man in Norway may …

PARIS – It is difficult not to be struck by the contrast between the “Asian”-like energy of Israel’s economy and civil society and the purel…

PARIS – Are women in Europe on the verge of becoming an engine for political change? In economic-development circles, experience and common …