Given that the Pakistani government’s handling of the Kashmir earthquake was somewhat of a highpoint in the context of a rather dismal national governance record, there was initial hope, however cautious, that the disaster recovery process in Pakistan might broaden...

This week, as most of us are finishing up year-end business or holiday shopping, the U.S. Senate may take the remaining votes on the new START treaty that limits U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons. The treaty, which was signed in April of this year, limits...

On December 25, 2009, a 23-year old Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully tried to detonate an improvised explosive device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The so-called “Christmas Day plot” put counterterrorism-related information...

Not long before the UN-run popular consultation in East Timor in 1999, an Indonesian general told me that if the East Timorese voted for independence, Indonesia would surely break apart. He cited the centrifugal forces at work that would pull the diverse country to ...

Reflecting on the G-20 summit in Seoul, it is clear that too many instant assessments focused on the predicted growing irrelevance of the G-20 due to the lack of agreement on President Obama’s proposal on global trade rebalancing. These appraisals both underestimate...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program in 2003. US-VISIT underpins DHS’s immigration management and border control efforts by collecting biometric information,...

In this report, Fred McGoldrick writes it is hard to know what is more disturbing—Iran’s continued defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions ordering Tehran to cease its uranium enrichment activities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency...

On November 19–20, President Obama and the leaders of the 28 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will gather in Lisbon, Portugal, to approve an updated strategy, a set of priority military capabilities, plans to strengthen partnerships,...

The U.S. government has a permanent and growing reliance on contracts with the private sector for a wide range of professional and support services.

President Obama’s pledge of support for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council for India could easily be seen as an empty gesture. Clearly, he wanted to show that he considered India to be a “21st century center of influence” and strengthen...