Ten years ago, during his first trip to Europe as U.S. president, Barack Obama delivered an historic speech in Prague. Much to the delight of the crowd, Obama...
In 1971, world leaders as varied as Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, and...
In March 2018, Syrian President Bashar Assad had himself filmed as he drove his car through the rubble-filled streets of Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of...
Sadly, 2018 will not be remembered as a year of political and diplomatic success. Though the international order had already begun to erode in 2017, the...
Upon Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, the New York Times published a letter to the editor with a marvelous anecdote.Shortly after the atomic bombs had fallen...
The annual General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is one of the most notable events on the international diplomatic calendar. As usual, this...
As autumn comes to Europe, it is time to reap the fruits of months of hard diplomatic work across the Balkan Peninsula. On Sept. 30, the former Yugoslav...
It is becoming increasingly clear globalization progresses not steadily, but through ups and downs. Currently, it appears to be in a downswing, hindered by a...
The annual NATO summit this month was the latest installment in a long series of disagreements between U.S. President Donald Trump and America’s European...
After the recent G-7 summit in Quebec, there can no longer be any doubt that the West is in crisis. Yes, “Western” countries have often pursued divergent...
The opening line of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” retains its universality to this day. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,”...
It has been exactly 15 years since the start of one of the most fateful episodes of the early 21st century: the Iraq War. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,...
Multipolarity is back, and with it strategic rivalry among the great powers. The re-emergence of China and the return of Russia to the forefront of global...
Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, famously said, “The most important thing is not to win, but to take part.” Now that North Korea...
In the summer of 2012, the international relations theorist Kenneth N. Waltz published an article titled “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” in which he argued...
In his famous “political trilemma of the world economy,” Harvard economist Dani Rodrik boldly claims that global economic integration, the nation-state and...
Germany and China are chief among the countries whose economic policies have drawn U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire. While the United States has the largest...
Few world regions are more culturally and politically complex than the Balkans. And there may be no clearer illustration of the region’s freighted past and...
Many people equate the European Union with Europe, overlooking a few nuances along the way. From a historical point of view, of course, it is clear that the...
As many analysts have observed, the Pax Americana of recent decades is on life support. After the first 150 days of Donald Trump’s “America First” – or, more...
Last week, the people of Iran decided to continue along the path toward openness. Fifty-seven percent of voters chose to elect the reformist President Hassan...
April 22, 2017 – International Earth Day – marked one year since the signing of the Paris climate agreement, which entered into force last November, and now...
While the European Union tries to weather a nationalist storm that threatens its core institutions, some of its most important strategic allies have injected...
The world needs the European Union now more than ever. Despite recent crises and the hard blow dealt by the Brexit vote, the EU may well be the world’s best...
It is unfortunate that so few international agreements have been reached in recent years. During a period when great-power competition has generally trumped...