Having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times - all to great fanfare - U.S. President Donald Trump may still believe that denuclearization is...
The Earth’s continental plates broke apart and first began to shift hundreds of millions of years ago. But anyone visiting European capitals or following...
No Middle East conflict is as complex as the one raging in Syria. The fight involves a government that is antithetical to Western values and a Sunni extremist...
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This aphorism, often attributed to Albert Einstein, seems to be the...
To watch the debate play out in America’s news media, it would seem that the opposite of “America First” is American interventionism: a chronic penchant for...
The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was evident...
Donald Trump’s presidency reminds me of nothing so much as the wars in Yugoslavia in the ’90s. At the height of the violence, a Serb friend said to me that,...
Back in 2005, when I was the United States’ lead negotiator at the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, I looked at the instructions I received...
Given that most of the Middle East is now in a state of turmoil, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should be commended for keeping the Syrian conflict in...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a good start to the New Year. Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games...
Some of the most iconic – and perhaps misleading – news images of the 21st century were of smiling Iraqis holding up their purple-ink-stained index fingers to...
U.S. President Donald Trump certainly has a point when he complains that he inherited the difficult problem in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided not to certify that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the agreement...
The recent six-month mark of Donald Trump’s presidency serves as a reminder not only of how little his administration has accomplished domestically, but also...
North Korea’s quest for nuclear weapons is often depicted as a “rational” response to its strategic imperatives of national security and regime survival....
U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia offered a rare glimpse into his emerging foreign policy agenda. It is now all but certain that the Trump...
Connecting the strategic dots between Afghanistan, Syria and North Korea has become an unavoidable task. Only by doing so can the world begin to discern...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Northeast Asia represented an important opportunity for Donald Trump’s administration to set out its...
We are only in the second month of Donald Trump’s presidency, but many Americans have already tired of the drama, and are wondering what the next 46 months...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, like many before it, has had a rocky start; but the most pressing challenges are yet to come. Among them will be...
The end of the fighting in Aleppo will not end the Syrian war, despite the countrywide cease-fire that has just been agreed. Nor will it ease the suffering of...
One of the hallmarks of a presidential transition in the United States is a comprehensive policy review, aimed at determining which policies to retain and...
The Middle East’s tragic tale of two cities – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – speaks to a fundamental lack of consensus in the region and within the...
Earlier last month, North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test – its second this year. Judging by the tremor detected, it was the North’s most powerful...
The United States’ presidential campaign, already long and tumultuous, will no doubt become even more so in the coming months, as the two parties’ nominees,...