Policy-makers in Beijing are paying close attention to how the West reacts to Russia’s belligerence. In the long run, this isn’t just about Ukraine.

Foul play is looking more and more likely in the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet. While it’s still too early to say for sure what happened, it’s a timely reminder that high-tech destructive terrorism is not a thing of the past.

As all sides try to end the Syrian conflict on their terms, Iran’s proxies are recruiting fighters from Iraq and sending them to Syria.

Japan has a stunning stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium stashed around the country. This worries China, and inspires jealousy in South Korea. US leadership is needed lest East Asia turn into the scene of a nuclear arms race.

On March 18, Professor Walter Russell Mead will be speaking on “The Big Five: America’s Make or Break Challenges” at the the Tikvah Fund in New York City as part of its Winter Speaker Series.

“Hundreds” of motorcycle-riding, gun-toting Boko Haram fighters launched a brazen daytime attack on Maiduguri, one of northern Nigeria’s biggest cities today.

In justifying his intervention in Crimea with a duty to defend Russians abroad, Putin is fueling the destructive fire of nationalism. It could be Russia’s undoing.

Wall Street’s back-office exodus from New York could spell trouble for Mayor De Blasio’s agenda.

The first step in the global fight against corruption should be to cut the flow of illicit funds into developed countries—not to fight corruption in the third world, but to contain it there.

A new Brookings institution study attacks defined-benefit public pension programs for systematically paying women less than men. We can fix this problem and make pensions more sustainable for everyone by switching to defined-contribution plans.