President Obama obviously hasn't officially announced his new Afghanistan strategy, but as Matt noted on Thursday, leaks indicate that he is leaning towards an approach that would focus on...

The title of this post is actually somewhat misleading, since it implies that the Cairo-led Palestinian reconciliation talks have just recently broken down. It is true that in the past few days,...

I'd encourage readers to check out John Lee's article over at WPR that talks about the importance of getting Asian powers to "buy in" to the idea of a strengthened bilateral relationship between the U.S. and India. The article makes...

In responding to Andrew Sullivan's pontifications, Stephen Walt offers a few points as to why Israel has chosen to adopt a policy of strategic ambiguity regarding its own nuclear arsenal (everyone...

One of the things that has puzzled me about the Taliban’s advance through the the Northwest of Pakistan has been the general lack of alarm in mainstream Pakistani society. Starting perhaps most obviously with Pervez Musharraf’s decision...