MADRID – It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world: US power is in decline. And nowhere does this seem truer than in Latin America.…

JERUSALEM – Israel, an audacious vision that came true, is now celebrating its 65th anniversary with a sense of well-deserved satisfaction a…

MADRID – “How difficult it is to die!” Francisco Franco is reputed to have exclaimed on his deathbed. Death, it seems, is always particularl…

TEL AVIV – No one really believed that the latest round of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a bre…

TEL AVIV – Forty-five years into Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and four years after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’…

MADRID – The revolutions that swept the Arab world during the last two years have exposed the extraordinary fragility of key Arab states. Wi…

TEL AVIV – Even before the latest cease-fire took hold, it had become clear that the dilemma facing Israel in Gaza entails more than simply …

MADRID – Since its launch in December 2008, Global Zero, the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, has run up against some formidable c…

TEL AVIV – Israel’s concern about the specter of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of confidence concerning the United States…

BOGOTÁ – The Framework Agreement for the End of the Armed Conflict in Colombia that has just been announced by President Juan Manuel Santos …

MADRID – The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back. As a result, the international community’s capacity to unite in the face…

MADRID – In his latest book, On China, Henry Kissinger uses the traditional intellectual games favored by China and the West – weiqi and che…

MADRID – Economics, particularly economic theories, always yield in the end to political imperatives. That is why Europe’s fast-changing pol…

MADRID – Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in …

MADRID – After long years of failed international efforts to end Iran’s cunning drive to develop nuclear weapons, the question today is no l…

MADRID – The English author and priest William Ralph Inge once said that “A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on…

MADRID – Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, prophecies about the inexorable doo…

MADRID – The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political …

MADRID – How revolutions unfold depends on many factors, including a country’s socio-economic structure, its particular historical tradition…

MADRID – The exchange of prisoners between enemies is often a prelude to political reconciliation. Unfortunately, the recent exchange betwee…

TEL AVIV – The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami …

MADRID – Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, …

MADRID – Whether or not the Arab Spring will usher in credible democracies across the Arab world remains uncertain. But, while the dust has …

TEL AVIV – The old vocation of what Rudyard Kipling called the “White Man’s Burden” – the driving idea behind the West’s quest for global he…

TEL AVIV – Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of US President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-sta…