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On April 16th, the Iceland’s President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to discuss the future of the…
Unlike his predecessors, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has taken on a much more robust and aggressive foreign policy with the country's neighbors. From…
In the past year, tensions surrounding Iran’s nuclear ambitions reached unprecedented levels, verging on war. With Israel assigning a “red line” for Iran’s proliferation efforts,…
Since the Rogun Dam project was first conceived in the 1970s, its progress has undergone a series of delays, denying Tajikistan the honor of building…
Saudi Arabia's anti-Shiite policies are leading the country closer to the worst clash of the Shiite and Sunni schools of thought in the history of…
Historically, Russia-China relations have been characterized by long periods of mistrust, interspersed with bouts of anger, fear, resentment, and at times even open hostilities. During…
When poor farmers in Ningbo, one of China’s oldest and richest cities, barricaded a road near a controversial petrochemical refinery in October, they triggered a…
June 20, 2006, was an important day for Angola. Amid the diplomatic pomp and handshakes of an official visit, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the…
The year 2012 helped bring answers to a few of the questions that loomed large for foreign observers when the year began. We now know…
Foreign policy analysts doubt that Mitt Romney, if elected on Tuesday, would actually be able to carry through on his promise to help American workers…
It took tens of thousands of years for humanity to reach its first billion in 1804. But it took only 123 years to reach its…
There's a tendency among U.S. scholars, policymakers and especially the military to look at China in a purely confrontational way. Not everyone thinks this way…
With its high poverty levels and low degree of industrialization, Africa arguably faces the largest development gap of any region. Beyond the usual misery indices…
As Bjorn Lomborg, a self-described “skeptical environmentalist," predicted days before the Rio+20, representatives emerged disappointed with the summit’s results.The Rio+20, or the United Nations Conference…
India is caught between the consequences of provoking a United States driven by its fixation upon the Iranian nuclear program and by an Iran that…
“Red China’s sub fleet can prove a major threat to American ships,” wrote Albert Ravenholt for the Chicago Daily News Service in 1964, referring to…
The state of Russia’s civilian nuclear power should be cause the entire planet to shudder: Radioactive waste deposal sites are full to the bursting point,…
Olexander Motsyk is Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S. Being a career diplomat, Mr. Motsyk has worked for more than 30 years in the field…
The Greek sovereign debt crisis has captured the attention of the world, both for what it says about the viability of the Euro and the…
Over the past twenty years, China has experienced dramatic economic growth, transforming itself from a basically agrarian society into the world’s second largest economy behind…
