Since their inception in 2000, The Millennium Development Goals have revolutionized the global aid business, using specific targets to help mobilize and guide development efforts. They have encouraged world leaders to tackle multiple dimensions of poverty simultaneously and provided a standard for judging performance. As their 2015 expiration looms, the time has come to bank those successes and focus on what comes next.

NATO's operation in Libya has rightly been hailed as a model intervention.

The Palestinian plan to ask the UN for statehood in September has provoked intense anxiety in Jerusalem and Washington.

Robert Danin argues that by adopting a publicly confrontational approach, the Palestinians risk undermining the goodwill and security that Fayyad's nation-building program has so painstakingly created.

NATO's success in Libya shows how important and effective the alliance remains, writes its secretary-general.

European politicians are worried about managing fiscal stabilization, but strict spending limits could destroy what little is left of the EU's political legitimacy.

It is time to face reality: the current round of multilateral trade talks is doomed.

The world's leading international institutions may be outmoded, but Brazil, China, India, and South Africa are not ready to join the helm.

As the United States and Europe face common threats around the globe, the time has come to break down the bureaucratic barrier between the European Union and NATO. Today's challenges require the hard power of NATO and the soft power of the EU.

NATO would run a strategic risk by admitting Russia, but the Atlantic alliance is actually running a greater strategic risk by excluding it.

With the Lisbon Treaty now in effect, the European Union has more power to implement foreign policy decisions -- on paper, at least.

Soon, travelers worldwide will have a chance to contribute to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis whenever they purchase airline tickets.

In the course of its 60 years, NATO has united the West, secured Europe, and ended the Cold War. What next?

The current architecture of international institutions must be updated, but skeptics question whether the United States is up to the task.

The UN must streamline its decision making process so it can start backing up its lofty words with action.

How the WTO boosts economies and opens societies.

Rethinking NATO and European Union enlargement