Fears about Asia’s rise warrant a more balanced and critical look. China and India's international standing should not be overstated because both face serious economic and social constraints that will limit their growth.
Policy makers who only 18 months ago identified Arab foreign investment as a major threat to national security and economic competitiveness are now actively reaching out to them.
The main problem currently facing the Iranian opposition is that the bulk of their brain trust is either in prison, under house arrest or have no methods of communicating, which has stifled political expression.
Human rights groups are trying to track how many Iranians are in custody following last month's disputed presidential election in Iran.
Russia will not agree to the kind of deep cuts in nuclear weapons envisioned by President Obama without a concrete deal on missile defense.
After enjoying months of good press coverage, President Obama’s honeymoon finally came to an end in July of 2009. As Obama now faces a number of tough policy challenges, increased public scrutiny is not necessarily a bad thing.
Iranians returned to the streets of Tehran Thursday to protest a disputed presidential vote. Analysts assess the latest developments.
Unrest among the Uighur minority in China was inevitable because of the lack of dialogue between ethnic groups, growing income inequality between Han Chinese and Uighurs, and government portrayals of Uighurs as separatist terrorists.
Alexei Arbatov and George Perkovich discuss their expectations for President Barack Obama's first official visit to Russia.
The street calm in Iran is misleading, although the scale of demonstrations has subsided, the depth of people’s sense of outrage and injustice has not.