Ambassador Keith M. Harper was US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council from 2014 to 2017 based in...

On February 25, 2022, the UN Security Council convened a historic emergency session to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a...

Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired career diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from...

Cuban patriot leader José Martí declared during Cuba’s final War of Independence (1895-1898) that the battle was “the revolution of the...

Ghaith al-Omari is a senior fellow in The Washington Institute’s Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship. He...

This May, the United States military moved the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, a large aircraft carrier, into the Persian Gulf, just off the...

President Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” has resulted in nothing but failure. The administration’s tendency to aggressively apply...

In the summer of 2017, China and India engaged in a 73-day border standoff on the Doklam Plateau, a 34 square mile piece of land disputed...

Steeped in a climate of Cold War anxiety, the 1983 box office hit WarGames was a satirical product of the doomsdayish-thriller psychology...

Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Kapur has represented India in Tanzania, France, Nepal, Cambodia, and Chile since beginning his career in the...

On September 17th, the latent tension between South Asian heavyweights India and Pakistan escalated into overt hostility after an attack...

If a man’s career represents his life story, Ambassador Chas Freeman’s tells a tale of success, excitement, and — not surprisingly —...

Relations between Poland and Russia have never been described as warm. While their robust economic cooperation may have had a mutually...

December 17 was marked by a historic diplomatic breakthrough when President Obama announced that the United States would restore full...

On December 17, 2014, Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United...

The notoriously hermetic and isolated country of North Korea closed its borders to tourists last fall due to concerns about the threat of...

Nouri al-Maliki’s abdication from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister last month sent shockwaves around the Middle East and the world....

After intense talks with six world powers including the United States, on November 23rd Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program.  The...

China is no stranger to image problems. Maligned by the West since the rise of Mao Zedong, it has often found itself at the receiving end...