The Trump Administration recognized it is a worldwide competition between two different political, social, and economic systems to determine what shall be the dominant “World Order” for the rest…

The world now awaits Trump Shock III, but it does not quite understand his Liberation Day imposition of tariffs on the world followed by a 90-day pause a week later.

Over the past few decades, European countries developed a procedure for dealing with international problems.

After World War II, the U.S. established a new “rules-based liberal international order” dominated by new “liberal democracies.” That system with its democracies is crumbling – right on schedule…

A hallmark of democracy is that, after an election, the losing parties accept the results and become the “loyal opposition.”

A hallmark of democracy is that, after an election, the losing parties accept the results and become the “loyal opposition.”

Over the past few decades, the Assad dictatorship in Syria, supported by Iran and Russia, played a pivotal role in Middle Eastern instability.

Jaguar just released an ad for their new electric vehicle which must rank as the new standard for weirdness. It just might exceed the Bud Light ad for brand destruction.

After three decades of foreign policy based on Fukuyama’s End of History, the Strategy of Wishful Thinking, it is over.

During the Cold War the United States had a clear strategy on which it could hang its foreign policy. That strategy changed from containment to Reagan’s “We win, they lose” strategy so the…

Sudden, violent, disruptive events in the Middle East cause big oil price jumps and front-page headlines about gasoline prices – don’t they? But, not lately. Like the dog that did not bark, why…

After the fall of the Iron Curtain the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) embraced the concept the world would be run by a group of benign democracies forevermore as a basis for foreign policy.…

Democracies are inherently unstable and, therefore, short-lived. That was true for the first “cradle of democracy,” Athens, in the fifth century B.C., and is demonstrably true now.

The Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) brings out the big guns for its second week of the On the Ballot project to undermine Trump’s campaign for president.

Over the weekend, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), supposedly one of our elite organizations for foreign policy considerations and analysis, sank to the level of mainstream media talking…

Two books. Two visions of the world. One influenced American foreign policy for 30 years. The wrong one.

I write this on D-Day with the commemorations playing on television.

The front page of yesterday’s Friday’s Wall Street Journal had a picture of a large public TV screen in Beijing showing a satellite image of Taiwan off the coast of mainland China and how the…

A basic rule for one in a position of confrontation, whether adversarial negotiation or open conflict, is to try to anticipate what actions an adversary might do or think.

An Italian colleague used to quote a jibe at is own countrymen’s penchant for long discussions when other things needed doing.

How much does one need to know to predict what the Fed has to do?

Suddenly the game changed over the weekend. Or did it?

Oil prices aren't as stable as they may appear.

No wonder young people are developing nihilistic attitudes. Their own government has created a formidable and all-inclusive mess.

The president of the National Education Association (NEA), an American teachers’ union and the largest union in the country, is demanding the Biden Administration force Israel to agree to a…