The author of “How Should America Deal with Authoritarian States?” responds to his critics. (The final entry in our series.)

It’s a classic, bipartisan, and ongoing dilemma—but revisiting the wisdom of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships & Double Standards” can help us navigate it.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan is undergoing a major process of top-down modernization. Here’s why the reforms are happening now—and why Washington should take an interest.

Lost in the electoral struggle for Istanbul, the deeper lesson of Turkey’s local election is the rise of Turkish nationalism. It has weakened President Erdoğan, and it offers the United States new options in developing a coherent Turkey policy.

The conflict between Turkey and Saudi Arabia is about more than just geopolitics. It’s about ideology—and survival.

Getting to better relations with Turkey will not be easy. But it’s far from impossible.

Sargsyan’s resignation may not suffice to address the long-brewing anger against Armenia’s establishment—nor resolve the country’s main geopolitical conundrum.

With Ankara and Washington on a collision course in northern Syria, both sides will have to rethink their priorities if they want to salvage an increasingly hollow alliance.

The United States must restore its leverage and credibility in the restive region caught between Russia, Turkey, and Iran.

Last week’s terror attack in Sweden should raise important questions about how the West defines its enemies.