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Saving Athens

Closer European financial integration is the best way to solve the Greek debt crisis. The future of the EU is at stake.

Loose BRICs

Americans shouldn’t be alarmed by the BRIC summit. The body is just another toothless international grouping, not an attempt to exert hard power.

Disadvantage: Realism

Pragmatic foreign-policy voices are always being upstaged by grandiloquent pronouncements from those promising to stand up to dictators and spread democracy. Too bad that what realists have to say is usually more sensible.

Of Bombers and Alliances

All the talk about the Russian bombers that were face to face with a U.S. aircraft carrier on February 9 centers around the Washington-Moscow relationship. But what does the incident mean for Japan?

The Other 'New Russia'

The public focus in the West has been on Russia’s electoral politics and Vladimir Putin’s possible successors. But emerging consumer markets there represent another “new Russia” that the media is largely ignoring.

Who Determines?

Has the West lost its monopoly on pronouncing election results (and governments) “legitimate”?

Russia's Elections-The Day After

How should the West react to the resounding victory of the United Russia party? Some advice for dealing with Moscow.

Conservative Columnist: Welcoming an Asian Elephant in Africa

All eyes are on China and its growing involvement in Africa, but India’s expanding relations with African countries have gone largely unnoticed. China’s intentions create anxiety; India’s do not.

The Gabala Gambit

Trading missile defense based in Poland and the Czech Republic for greater Russian cooperation on the Nunn-Lugar program.

Revisiting Iran?

On Tuesday the United States’ agreed to join in talks with Iran and Syria on Iraq’s future. The following are excerpts from The Grammercy Round, titled “Revisiting Iran?”, in the forthcoming March/April issue of The National Interest

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May 26, 2012