After a baffling, silent attack on US Embassy staff in Havana, the Trump administration is using concern over its diplomats’ health as an excuse to reverse Obama’s rapprochement with Cuba.
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With much attention focused on military might and economic sanctions, there has been little focus on calls for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis.
Trump seems to think all potential nuclear agitators are alike. He’s wrong, and perhaps disastrously so.
A well-trained military is crucial to a functioning civil democracy, but it can be a liability too.
Was Vietnam ‘a quagmire’ or a ‘stalemate machine’? Understanding this 50-year-old debate can shed light on why the US is currently locked into a ‘forever war.’
Japan’s security is based on the guarantee that America will protect it, come what may – but that guarantee may no longer be reliable.
Here’s the script accompanied by a lot of bombast, signifying not much. North Korea launches another missile – its 18th for the year and 80th since Kim Jong-un assumed power in 2011. This time it travels…
New film has broken China’s box office record while projecting soft power for Beijing.
Without a legitimate government, Afghanistan will never be stable … no matter how many terrorists are killed.
President Donald Trump has upped the ante in America’s longest-running war, but it is not clear whether an all-guns-blazing strategy will bring the long-running conflict any nearer to a conclusion. In…
A former Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hardline approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
What should America’s role in the world be? A lot of people have an answer, but few of them agree.
In international relations, words matter – and so does the credibility of the speaker.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get them?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dealt Australia into the argument over how to respond to North Korea’s brinkmanship over its nuclear weapons program. Speaking on Melbourne radio on Friday morning Turnbull…
The issue with Donald Trump’s ad-hoc response and commentary on North Korea is the inconsistent messages this sends to an already paranoid and isolated regime.
The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that’s not so easy.
Kim Jong-il and Bill Clinton looked to have done a deal to curb North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme for good. What went wrong?
The US is doing so with increasing frequency around the world – most recently with Kurdish fighters in Syria. A scholar explains what can go wrong, and why this approach is likely to continue.
It turns out that the president of the Philippines is exactly who he said he was.
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