Everywhere I have been the BBC has been with me’, declared Aung San Suu Kyi on her 2012 visit to the UK. Speaking about her own and others’ experiences when deprived of other sources of information and communication, she insisted warmly on the lifeline the World Service...

There are times the United States does not need an enemy in going to war. It poses enough of a threat to itself without any foreign help. The current debate over ground troops in Iraq and Syria threatens to be yet another case in point, compounding the American threats to...

Pakistan’s economic crisis is one of the main sources of its instability, but government and donor efforts to stabilize and grow its economy have so far been inadequate. One of the barriers to investing in Pakistan’s private sector has been the perceptions of...

Japan has built a commendable energy security program since the 1973 oil embargo, but the Fukushima accident and complete halt of nuclear power threatens Japan’s economic competitiveness, environmental quality, and ultimately Japan’s national security. The overall trade...

The Korea Chair team takes a biweekly look back at events of interest in Washington, Seoul, and the region from September 4...

The United States and its allies compete with Iran in a steadily more unsettled and uncertain Levant. The political upheavals in the Middle East, economic and demographic pressures, sectarian struggles and extremism, ethnic and tribal conflicts and tensions all combine to...

Vietnam’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Pham Binh Minh, will visit Washington in early October for consultations with Secretary of State John Kerry. Their meetings will provide a venue for adding more concrete components and depth to the comprehensive...

Historians may come to see September 18th, 2014 as the accidental beginning of the long-term unwinding of the great European integration project that was birthed from the ashes of two world wars in the 20th century.  

As in 1914, will Europe once again...

YLs meet with Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Vietnam’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Pham Binh Minh, will visit Washington in early October for consultations with Secretary of State John Kerry. Their meetings will provide a venue for adding more concrete components and depth to the comprehensive...

Private and public entrepreneurs are hoping to end the confusion using geographic information system (GIS) technology and mobile devices. Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Post led the way in the last decade, creating unique 13-digit “addresses” that identify geographic...