Though there are some important differences this time around, the solution to this recurring nightmare remains the same—and remains unlikely.

Russia’s operatives could be taken to the International Criminal Court for their role in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine. Even ICC skeptics in America ought to be open to this approach.

Indonesia’s General Election Commission is set to release its official results to the hotly contested presidential elections tomorrow. It’s not likely to put an end to the matter.

EU leaders are set to meet on Tuesday to discuss further sanctions on Russia, and Putin’s billionaires appear to be scared. But will the Europeans follow through?

Pakistan’s ongoing campaign against the Taliban isn’t going as well as its media would have you think. Meanwhile, Sunni extremism is laying down roots in the country’s religiously diverse Southern province.

How our cultural fixation on the welfare of the middle class blinds us to a deeper view of human freedom and flourishing.

“Between Sovereign states there can be no last resort except war; if war no longer serves that purpose, that fact alone proves that we must have a new concept of the state.”

—Hannah Arendt, in an interview with Adelbert Reif, 1970.

Extra European sanctions are likely to arrive faster, and they may even be more robust. But beyond that, there are real hard limits to how far the West will go in the aftermath of the Malaysia Air disaster.

Putin cannot be happy about this latest, tragic turn of events. After all, things were going more or less according to plan up to now.

President Goodluck Jonathan is calling for greater funding to combat Boko Haram. Even if he is successful, however, money may not be enough.