BERLIN – Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, once described the United States as the “indispensable nation.” Current devel…

BERLIN – Just weeks ago, the worst of the financial crisis in Europe seemed to be over. Stability seemed to be returning. But appearances pr…

BERLIN – The United States has waged three wars since Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001: against Al Qaeda, in Afghanistan, …

BERLIN – Two years after popular uprisings began to convulse the Middle East, few people speak of an “Arab Spring” anymore. Given Syria’s bl…

BERLIN – When placed under too much strain, chains tend to break at the weakest link. Figuratively speaking, the same applies to the Europea…

BERLIN – Will the eurozone crisis end in 2013, or will it drag on throughout the year, and perhaps even deteriorate anew? This is likely to …

BERLIN – When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a blo…

BERLIN – Multitasking is not exactly the strong point of Europe’s current generation of leaders. They have rightly given the eurozone crisis…

BERLIN – Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things. He might have added …

BERLIN – In the coming months, several serious regional economic and political crises could combine into one mega-watershed, fueling an inte…

BERLIN – What will the Middle East look like once the Syrian civil war brings about the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, whose clan has ru…

BERLIN – Rarely is a high-flying country brought back down to earth in a single night, but that is precisely what happened to Germany r…

BERLIN – Europe’s situation is serious – very serious. Who would have thought that British Prime Minister David Cameron would call on eurozo…

BERLIN – There can be little reasonable doubt today that the People’s Republic of China will dominate the world of the twenty-first century.…

BERLIN – The negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany, over Iran’s nucl…

BERLIN – With Europe bogged down by the financial crisis and its national governments failing or being voted out of office across the contin…

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be happy nowadays: her party’s approval ratings aren’t bad, and her own are very good. She n…

BERLIN – For two years now, one European summit after another has ended with assurances that – at long last – the necessary measures for con…

BERLIN – While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow-motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre …

BERLIN – The eurozone is at the center of the global financial crisis, because only there, in the realm of the second most important currenc…

BERLIN – Regardless of whether democratization in the “new Middle East” succeeds or authoritarian forms of government prevail once again, on…

BERLIN – Slowly, word is getting round – even in Germany – that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its e…

BERLIN – Finally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted a new form of European Union. More than ever, the EU must combine greater sta…

BERLIN – From the start of the Greek debt crisis in 2010, the major European players should have understood the risks and consequences that …

BERLIN – Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the ongoing catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan has – …