John J. Hamre talks with Joseph Nye and Richard Armitage.

The next president will have to adopt less expansive methods in the Middle East, and accomplish more.

One woman’s tale of a year spent fighting poppy cultivation and policy incoherence in southern Afghanistan.

America has been trying to do too much with too little. It’s time to do less and succeed more.

Blistering heat, IEDs and highly irregular officers: working with the Iraqi Army in Ninewa province.

A proposal for settling the Afghan-Pakistan border dispute, and closing down a key al-Qaeda sanctuary.

The AKP’s election victories are good news for Muslim liberalism.

A worm’s-eye view of what went wrong with reconstruction and development in postwar Iraq.

The story behind Argentina’s newest power couple.

Nicolas Sarkozy ran on a platform of breaking with the
French status quo, and—sacrebleu!—he won.