Despite the fall of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, humanitarian intervention still has plenty of critics.

Most pundits argue the eurozone has only two options: break up or create a fiscal union to match its monetary one.

The world cannot let the March disaster at Japan's Fukushima power plant scare it into forgoing the benefits of nuclear energy—a cheap, reliable, and safe source of electricity

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been gripped by a devastating population crisis almost unprecedented during peacetime.

As Indonesia hosts a number of high-level summits this year, it looks set to take its place among the world's economic superstars.

In their single-minded pursuit of economic growth, China's leaders have long overlooked public health—which, by some measures, is now worse than under Mao.

President Viktor Yanukovych has led Ukraine, no stranger to crisis, into yet another round of turmoil.

China is hardly the first great power to make authoritarian development look attractive. As Jonathan Steinberg's new biography of Bismarck shows, Wilhelmine Germany did it with ease.

Steven Radelet's accessible new book argues that much of the credit for Africa's recent economic boom goes to its increasingly open political systems.

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.

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.

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.