Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The status of North Korea has a strong affect on bilateral relations between the United States and China.
The upcoming White House review of President Obama’s war strategy in Afghanstan is expected to cite progress in the fight against the Taliban, but also to highlight key remaining challenges to U.S. efforts in the country.
The huge breach in U.S. security and the gap between what government officials say in public and their actual decisions in private should be at the center of the discussion about Wikileaks, not Julian Assange.
There is no long-term military solution to the multitude of economic, environmental, social, and political problems that are destabilizing Yemen.
Yemen has become a hotbed of Islamic militancy and is now the home base for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is arguably more of a global threat than the main branch of al-Qaeda.
A regional approach to the conflict between Israel and Palestine would ensure that all parties involved have the ability to make painful compromises and still achieve a viable agreement.
President Obama had no choice but to dismiss McChrystal. With Petraeus, though, he managed to make a personnel change without a hint of policy change.
The Middle East is in a state of heightened tension following Israel’s armed attack on a flotilla of humanitarian aid. If nations in the region are determined to provoke a war, little can be done to prevent conflict from escalating.
Turkey is one of the most economically and politically powerful states in the Middle East and it has recently been taking steps to fill the leadership vacuum that exists in the region.
Turkey is strongly condemning Israel for the attack Monday on a six-ship flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The attack has dealt a very public setback to Israeli-Turkish relations, which have been slowly deteriorating for several years.