Southeast Asia

Never Say Never Again

Paul R. Pillar | Jun 6, 2013

Rice and Power exemplify the dangers of making future policy from a simplistic reading of the past.

A Free(ish) Press Comes to Burma

Alexa L. McMahon | Mar 14, 2013

Burma's Glass Half-Full

Doug Bandow | Mar 14, 2013

Things aren't perfect, but the Southeast Asian state has come a long way.

Lee Kuan Yew, Grand Master of Asia

Graham Allison
Robert D. Blackwill

Singapore's éminence grise sees China rising and India falling.

When Kerry Stormed D.C.

Marvin Kalb

John Kerry was just five years out of Yale when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and became an instant celebrity.

Netanyahu's Game and the Two Gulfs

Paul R. Pillar

Netanyahu may have attempted to provoke a war between Iran and the United States in 2010.

Beyond Allies and Adversaries

Ted Galen Carpenter

U.S. leaders need to abandon their binary mentality and recognize that Washington will not always get its way.

The Seventy-Year Itch

Paul R. Pillar

A fundamental problem with a revolutionary party as a ruling party is that is that its raison d'etre is stuck in the past.

American Interest, American Blood

Robert W. Merry

The price America pays in blood for its overseas initiatives rarely gets mentioned in political debates surrounding such policies, but it deserves more attention.

Asia's New Age of Instability

Michael Wesley

Asia’s four pillars of stability, bulwarks of a highly successful regional system crafted and fostered by America, are all crumbling. The region’s future will be shaped and defined by the struggle to replace those pillars.

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June 20, 2013