Jimmy Carter is one of the few former presidents whose stature actually rose once he left office. He has dedicated his post-presidential years to helping others and his sincerity has resulted in

With military commanders in Iraq indicating that plans for the withdrawal U.S. troops remain on track, more and more attention is being paid to the conflict in Afghanistan (which has overflowed into

North Korea apparently finds great joy in poking sticks into the eyes of more developed countries. The strategy it uses most often is to bring a situation to the brink of confrontation,

Henry Kissinger, who has labored in academia’s ivory towers as well as Foggy Bottom’s government offices, remains, at age 86, keenly interested in world events and U.S. responses to them. Never shy

Iran remains a dilemma (as well as an enigma) for the West. Much of its leadership clings to the revolutionary oratory that helped overthrow the Shah, but three decades of revolutionary rule

The Obama administration has found itself caught in its first dilemma concerning the Muslim world. While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was touring the globe and touting an era of new and

Although this is a corporate blog, security is one of the topics about which I frequently write. The reason I do so is not because I lay claim to be a security