It has become fashionable to advocate for arresting NATO expansion and instead offering countries located between NATO and Russia’s borders “permanent neutrality” ensconced in a new European security architecture. The goal of this architecture, its...

Disaster sometimes moves slowly. Naturally, our attention is drawn to fast-moving, visually captivating threats: a raging wildfire, a careening car, a missile test. Terrorist attacks are often designed to tap into these cognitive biases. But some threats grow gradually and...

A Collective Sigh of Relief…and Shock

You could hear a collective exhale on Sunday as French voters—who all along accurately expressed their feelings to pollsters among a crowded field of diverse presidential candidates—now face a head-to-head contest...

Today is Yom HaShoah, the start of the Week of Remembrance of the Holocaust. It also should be a time of clarity and commitment to do all in our power to prevent a recurrence of that horrific evil and other crimes against humanity. Each year at this time, I recall my visits...

It is all too easy to talk about military options in general terms. The devil, however, lies in the details—both in terms of the practical ability of a given side's capability to execute given options and in terms of the ability to predict how the other side(s) will react...

This Sunday, April 23, French voters will head to the polls for the first round of their presidential election. For the first time, populist and nationalistic candidates are faring as well as traditional party candidates. The election is too close to call and will be a test...

Suriname’s economy is in a steep recession. This was made painfully evident in this month when Independence Square across from the Presidential Palace in the capital, Paramaribo, was filled with demonstrators opposed to the government’s price increases for fuel, water,...

This past weekend, North Korea conducted a major military parade, an annual affair to commemorate the birth of Kim Il-sung. The event included the conspicuous display of many missiles and artillery pieces, which together demonstrate the nation’s firm intent to develop new...

India’s membership in the IEA is a major milestone for India, the IEA, and global energy governance. India has had dialogues with the IEA on emergency preparedness in the past, but India’s joining as an association country can facilitate its collaboration with the IEA in...

The sheer number of conflicts in the Middle East is daunting. Battles are raging in Syria and Iraq, in Yemen, and in Libya. There is a low-grade insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, and Shi`a communities in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are seething. The Western Sahara raises...

The relationship between the United States and the countries of the Caribbean is complex, multidimensional, and of fundamental importance, because the United States is the largest economic partner of the Caribbean and the Caribbean is the third border of the United States....