The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
“With Ukraine, Russia is an empire. Without it, Russia is just another country.” The history between these two is long…
The Transnistria region in Moldova is a Cold War relic. Along with Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan and South Ossetia in Georgia, it is…
Pakistan after independence was a strange creation: the capital, Islamabad, and most of the power were located in the west…
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) marked a turning point in relations between the U.S. and the USSR. Signed in December 1987 by President Ronald…
On December 21, 1988, Pan American flight 103 flying from London Heathrow to JFK Airport in New York exploded over…
It sounds like something out of a novel: a group of rebels, helped by an American, seize an embassy in…
After attempting to convince Washington that a civil war in China was imminent and that the Communists would be the…
One of the great dilemmas in foreign policy is when and whether to negotiate with one’s enemies. Will a dialogue…
Despite getting extremely close to agreeing to negotiations to avert hostilities, the U.S. and Japan failed to make peace and…