Post–Cold War era

March 2, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest

February 26, 2022 | James Brooke |

With Russian invasion of Ukraine, a page just turned in Europe’s history book

In the future, we will remember Feb. 24 alongside 9/11 and Dec. 7. Although Russia’s invasion is not a bolt from the blue like Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Center, many people did not...

July 22, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The U.K. Has Its Own Russia Problem

A new report highlights various schemes by Vladimir Putin.

November 7, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The advance of illiberal world disorder

What Americans achieved after World War II is endangered

July 15, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Chilcot Report

The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...

April 22, 2013 | James Kirchick The Tower |

Has Turkey Betrayed the West?

Once a secular, modernizing country, Turkey’s ruthless assault on journalists raises serious doubts about its future.

February 27, 2013 |

A Nasty Piece of Work

A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.

June 22, 2011 | World Defense Review

China Goes on Safari

By Dr. J. Peter Pham Understandably, the foreign policy focus of United States policymakers and media has been trained lately primarily on the ongoing events in the Greater Midd...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa

In last week's column, surveying developments in the former Somalia, Sudan, the Maghreb and Sahel, Nigeria and West Africa, and the rest of the continent, I concluded that "Through the c...

March 31, 2010 | David Francis US Strategy in Africa: AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challeneges

AFRICOM: Terrorism and Security Challenges in Africa

AFRICOM is not merely a post-Cold War experiment to respond to the security challenges of the twenty-first century, but also a much-needed updating of the internal structural framework that has l...

September 18, 2009 |

Pashtuns and Pakistanis

The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...

November 15, 2006 | |

Where to Stand and Fight

Earlier this week, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Bush threatened Iran with "isolation" if it continues plowing forward in its nuclear program. Thi...

October 30, 2006 | Clifford D. May Foreign Policy

Symposium: What Happens If the Democrats Win

During the Cold War, Democrats were regarded as weak on national security. From Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969 to Bill Clinton's post-Cold War return there in 1...

August 29, 2006 | TCS Daily |

Europe’s Munich Moment

In March 2003, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the current French Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin -- then his country's foreign minister -- condemned the Coalition of the Willin...

December 10, 2003 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

America Didn’t Plan for this Kind of War

The 21st century wasn't supposed to be like this. We Americans were meant to be spending our “peace dividends,” while the high-tech stocks in our 401Ks grew like Jack's bean...

May 20, 2003 | Donna Brazile Wall Street Journal

What Would Scoop Do?

By Donna Brazile and Timothy Bergreen Forty-eight hours after President Bush told a cheering throng of sailors on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that major combat in Iraq was over,...