2012 has been an eventful year for Russia and the Eurasia region as well as for U.S.-Russia relations. To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia for the third time in March with a commanding majority of 64% of the votes. Also not entirely...

While vacationers think of the Caribbean in terms of suns and beaches, U.S. policymakers tend to think of it in terms of counternarcotics, humanitarian aid, and HIV/AID mitigation.

The Indian Navy chief, Admiral D.K. Joshi, has staked India’s claims in the waters of the South China Sea much more powerfully than the government by recently suggesting that with the security of the nation’s economic assets at stake in South China Sea, “we...

With the U.S. drawing down its forces in Afghanistan over the next two years, it urgently needs to shift from short-term thinking. For decades, the rational long-term political solution for Afghanistan has been a strategy called "neutralization," which could look...

Understanding the complex and often contradictory interactions among Turkey, Russia, and Iran is essential to avoiding a wider war in the Middle East, renewed conflict in the Caucasus, and instability in Central Asia following the withdrawal of NATO forces from...

At 9:49 a.m. on December 12 (Seoul Time), North Korea launched its planned long-range Unha-3 rocket amid the heightened international condemnation. The controversial rocket launch came as a bit of a surprise to neighboring countries following North Korea’s state media...