The United States is headed into a political and economic cul-de-sac. Obama needs to make clear to the country that budget cuts are threatening the recovery.
Introducing a normative dimension into the U.S. relationship with the Kremlin will complicate bilateral relations, but it will also help the United States regain the trust and respect of Russia’s pro-Western constituency.
Tensions with North Korea are rising as the United States strengthens its missile defense in response to threats.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has used strong words against North Korea after the country threatened to attack the United States.
The current economic recovery is not leading toward the buoyant growth and widespread prosperity enjoyed after America’s last great crash and downturn.
China’s 12th National People’s Congress has concluded and Xi Jinping assumed the presidency of a country that is at a domestic crossroads and is simultaneously a rising international power.
Despite the “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations during the first Obama administration, tensions seem to be increasing between Moscow and Washington.
President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons that the United States believes would be defensible for others to follow as long as nuclear weapons remain.
The suspicious deaths of Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, as well as the opposing accounts by witnesses and Cuba's government, mean only one thing: someone is not telling the truth.
Current tension in Japan-China relations has implications beyond short-term concerns about an accidental clash at sea or a drop in bilateral trade.