Israeli settlements—and the military occupation needed to defend them—present a central obstacle to peace and to the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

Is globalization to blame for rising unemployment and income inequality in the United States?

Before complaining about China's refusal to buy into the liberal world order, argues Amitai Etzioni, the West should stop moving the goalposts by developing new norms of intervention, such as "the responsibility to protect."

Over the past three decades, Washington has consistently favored the rich -- and the more wealth accumulates in a few hands at the top, the more influence and favor the rich acquire, making it easier for them and their political allies to cast off restraint without paying a social price.

No state with serious oil wealth has ever transformed into a democracy.

European leaders feel they have a right and duty to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Two trends represent Korea today: South Korea's extraordinary economic boom and North Korea's stagnation and provocation.

On 9/11, the global jihadist movement burst into the world's consciousness, but a decade later, thanks in part to the Arab Spring and the killing of Osama bin Laden, it is in crisis.

It's tempting to see the 9/11 attacks as having fundamentally changed U.S. foreign policy. It's also wrong.

The Afghans will indeed be ready to take over their own security by 2014, writes the former commander of the ISAF Joint Command.

In 2001, fearing ethnic strife, the international community pushed for a strong central government in Kabul.

Is China poised to take over from the United States as the world's leading economy?

Sure, China's economic growth has been unprecedented, even miraculous. But the country is unlikely to keep up its breakneck pace.

Neither intensifying the drug war nor legalizing all drugs offers much hope of reducing drug abuse in the United States or lessening violence in Mexico.

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

To understand the Brotherhood's prospects in Egypt's upcoming elections, one has to understand the organization itself.

Despite its vows to speed Egypt toward elections, the country's military leadership is actually ambivalent about democracy.

Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy.

Steven A. Cook discusses Turkish domestic politics after the uprisings.

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.