As Latin America becomes more important in economic terms to the United States, the United States becomes relatively less important to Latin America.

In the public life of a nation, leaders should be judged by what they accomplish for the greater good.

Israel's strategic peril may have no solution, so it will need to deftly manage its partnership with Washington.

Realism without a measure of idealism is unrealistic, and idealism will fuel U.S. interventionism.

To the extent that the world's economy has a geographic center, it is Asia.

Top-tier diplomats are disciplined in what they say, in how they think and administer.

The nation's primary ground branch is becoming a contingency force.

A North Korean a collapse may come quicker than many suspect.

The new nuclear age is driven by religion and nationalism rather than ideology.

What China becomes will depend on the Han core's ability to project peace and prosperity into the minority borderlands.