Iran is seeing its greatest crisis since the 1979 Revolution. If America avoids legitimizing the regime, the government may well fall.
Georgian forces are withdrawing. Russia presses on. How will all this end?
The American election looks a lot more exciting to Iranians than their own vote to be held on Friday. Who the Iranians are rooting for at home and abroad.
Yuliya Tymoshenko has made her triumphant return. What can we expect of her and Viktor Yannukovych’s governing coalition?
Are the joint military exercises between Russia and China confirmation of A World Without the West? Also, further thoughts from
As events in Turkey show, advocates of a League of Democracies must come to grips with the ambiguity that characterizes governments—including crucial allies—around the world.
With parliamentary and presidential elections slated for the next two years, political posturing in the Islamic Republic provides insight into potential power shifts in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad and his defeat may have been the headliner in the elections, but there is a more preponderant, slower-moving back-story to the vote, reflecting a potential shift in a real center of power.
One of the alarming tendencies in American discourse about foreign policy is the prevalence of "if A, then B" style thinking.
Iraq has become a test case for the American experiment in untrammeled military power, and it is proving a difficult one.