Leslie H. Gelb says it's good riddance that President Obama's talk of shifting from Europe to Asia faded as the G8 and NATO meetings loomed.

In the New York Times Magazine, Gary Bass takes issue with the claim that multiethnic societies are more likely to experience civil wars.

The New Strategic Triangle: U.S. and European Reactions to China's Rise. David Shambaugh. Washington Quarterly. Summer 2005

Although they...