Back to the Future in Iran's Election

The June elections have been shaken up by the entry of former president Rafsanjani. 

The Tensions Beneath the Moscow Spy Scandal

The caper comes amidst warming relations with Russia, highlighting lasting challenges.

Kenneth Waltz's Crucial Logic

Why the scholar's thought continues to have an enormous impact.

Erdogan's Obama Agenda

Turkey's neighbors and Turkey's trade will get top billing in today's meeting.

Kenneth Waltz and the Power of Pure Theory

Waltz had a gift for rigorously linking the theoretical with the practical.

Obama and Erdogan's Trust Problem

The prime minister's visit to Washington will feature hot disagreements over Syria behind closed doors.

Hosting the Olympics Games in Sochi has inflamed tensions over the “Circassian question” once again, prompting the ethnic and political mobilization of the Circassian communities.

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The Rise of Global Civilization

An interview with Kishore Mahbubani, author of The Great Convergence.

Regional Headlines

There's No North Korea Crisis

Kim Jong-un, like his father before him, threatens the world with military farce.

Assad the Survivor

A strategic shift shows Syria's president may be as clever as he is brutal.

The Cyprus-Crisis Culture Clash

The bank fight was influenced by European-Cypriot-Russian worldviews as much as by money.

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May 19, 2013