Crime Commentary

Escape From Mexico

Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 30, 2010
Is our southern neighbor a failed state? Police can’t protect the population. The higher-ups are sending their families north and out of harm’s way.

Avoiding Pyongyang

Doug Bandow | May 24, 2010
The Cheonan incident is South Korea’s responsibility. If Seoul decides on a retaliatory strike, America shouldn’t get involved.

Bad Investments

Doug Bandow | Apr 15, 2010
What’s the point of paying allies to provide marginal contributions to the war on terror?

Tokyo Rising

Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 07, 2010
China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.

Good Deal

Jacob Heilbrunn | Mar 31, 2010
The arms treaty with Russia strengthens America’s security by allowing us to cut back on useless warheads.

Europe Doesn't Matter

Doug Bandow | Feb 10, 2010
The EU doesn’t have a united foreign policy and its member countries are downsizing their militaries. Why are Europeans surprised no one pays attention to them?

A House Divided? War, Extradition and the Atlantic Alliance

David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Lee A. Casey
| Oct 02, 2002
When not publicly attacking the Bush Administration, European statesmen tend, at least on the quiet, to deprecate their American counterparts as the rude products of a "cowboy" culture.

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