From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776 George C. Herring Oxford University Press 1040 pp. Today the United States is the essential nation, the unipower, the sole superpower, the country whose government, like God, worries if a sparrow falls to...
Having savaged each other for a year, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have now formed a rare partnership in power. Not since James Garfield chose James G. Blaine has a new president chosen his principal rival to be secretary of state. What does this tell us?...
Updated at 5:55 p.m EST, Dec. 5, 2008Violence tapered off dramatically for the prayer day. At least eight Iraqis were killed and another nine more were wounded. Several migrant workers were possible injured during eviction from a warehouse where they were being...
As a group of retired military leaders prepared to urge US President-elect Barack Obama to quickly put an end to the harsh interrogation practices inflicted on security prisoners, a new United Nations report charged that Iraqi authorities were committing "grave...
It is a commonly held belief that the current international order dates back to World War Two, with a slight adjustment for the fact that the Berlin Wall and Communism are no more. While it is true that 1945 and 1990 mark the starting points for many things that are...
Updated at 7:35 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2008At least 98 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 177 were wounded in today's attack. Two U.S. soldiers were killed during a suicide bombing and a British soldier died during a shooting incident as well. A significant...
The Washington, D.C., metro is following in the footsteps of the New York subway and is now conducting random searches of passengers. The justification given for further eroding the Fourth Amendment (which guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… After all, that massive U.S. air attack on Iran that anti-imperial critics long expected to arrive, that Seymour Hersh wrote about, that so many feared, never happened and, with Barack Obama's election,...
The Mumbai massacre comes at a time when the U.S. is about to switch battlefields in its avowedly "generational" war on terrorism, from the Middle East to South Asia. As we move our forces eastward into Afghanistan and, inevitably, Pakistan, the events in Mumbai light...
The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to engage Iran without preconditions and to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace accord, according to two veteran Middle East experts whose views are likely to have influence over Obama's...
