Before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, economic theory trumped economic history; no longer. But what does that history tell us?

Why IKEA is just as bad as Wal-Mart.

Japan’s August 30 election, which swept the ruling Liberal Democratic Party out of power, changes everything—perhaps.

A bold new design for a master metric of national power.

Simple questions do not always dispose themselves to simple answers, so in pondering what it means to say that Germany is (or is not) a normal country twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I turn first to analogies furnished by memory. Two memories, in particular, come to mind. In the early 1970s, I […]

You could say that we began going wobbly over Afghanistan in March, when the much-heralded new strategy embodied the best nation-building aspirations, but did not quite add up to a renewed declaration of war. There are good reasons too. It is a huge leap from calculating how much we can afford to lose to trying […]

The issues I will discuss with all of you are the blossoming relationship between what might seem unlikely bedfellows…. the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whether we have a national security crisis looming on the horizon, and whether our national security and law enforcement communities are sufficiently focused on this […]

Meet William Playfair, 18th-century philosopher, writer, inventor, spy.

California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

An old obsession goes virtual in the age of globalization.