Washington is packing its bags, but Beijing looks set to stay in AfPak for the long haul.
Two certainties about Egypt's elections: the winner won't be anyone's first choice, and he will have a hard road ahead.
Why the most successful route to reaching a nuclear deal with Tehran may be through Pretoria.
Washington should hold up Islamist groups that renounce violence and embrace politics as examples, not continue to call them terrorist organizations.
Weak reporting in The Washington Post attempts to mask the sad state of U.S.-Russia relations.
An anticlimactic summit revealed most of the allies lack the will and the wallet to fulfill NATO's lofty promises.
After a decade of controversial tactics, the Pentagon is cracking down on how Islam is taught to the U.S. military.
To prevent a nuclear Tehran, Obama will have to work with Putin.
The question isn't whether Greece will abandon the euro. It's whether Greece will be forced to abandon the euro—and what the fallout would be.
Once the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, Washington will no longer set the rules in Southwest Asia.
The house of Saud is meeting resistance as it pushes other gulf monarchies toward a closer union.
Washington has been repeating the same mistakes in Afghanistan for 30 years. Obama is poised to continue the cycle.
Strategically important to Afghanistan, Iran and a host of other issues, NATO should pay attention to Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Technical difficulties, political squabbling and Russian objections are hindering the alliance's missile-defense project.
Obama and NATO promised Afghanistan a "stable future." But can they deliver?
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Ted Galen Carpenter
Ariel Cohen
Thomas de Waal
David Kay
Anatol Lieven
Robert W. Merry
Kenneth Pollack
Bruce Riedel
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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