A session of the United Nations Security Council in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The UN Security Council witnessed a rare double veto on Tuesday. Both Russia and Ch…

Last week, while discussing U.S. military planning for the Korean Peninsula, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned, “No question we’re within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the wo…

As 2016 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2017.

Elizabeth Leader is a research associate for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.  The visit of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to Southeast Asia last week reaffirmed the Obama adm…

Last week I introduced the SERF Index, a new measurement tool my colleagues Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and I have built to evaluate social and economic rights fulfillment. The new index shed…