If we want to calm Iran's nuclear ambitions, we're going to need to brush up on our diplomatic basics.
The debacle in Iraq reaffirms the lesson of a thousand years ago: there is no such thing as a good crusade; divine missions are not conducive to sensible policy.
Without quick mediation, the politicization of religion could lead to conflict.
In a volatile region of the world like South Asia, principled realism, not sloganeering, should guide U.S. policy.
The Specter of a "Colored Revolution"Kazakhstan's scheduled December 4, 2005 presidential election brings two major questions into focus for this Central Asian state.
China's reaction to the outbreak of influenza on the mainland will affect more than just the health of its citizens.
Bush's realist head and voter's evangelical hearts are taking him in two different directions on China.
Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.
Arafat's death opened a real window for peace--but it won't stay open for long.
Charles Krauthammer, Mark Brzezinski, Pater Lavelle, Jay Loo, Moshe Zvi Marvit and Fred Siegel.