European publics continue to support the idea of an integrated European project in the area of defense.

France’s Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, may be just the person to shake the Socialist Party out of its torpor and return it to fighting trim. Does he have a shot at the presidency in 2017?

The problem with President Obama’s unprecedented “hands-off” policy for the Middle East.

Why we need a more refined concept of it, that is.

Russian-American relations are in ruins. A look back at decisions made after the Cold War can help us understand what went wrong—and whether the United States had other options.

The classic Ron Shelton film Bull Durham (1988) takes its hero on a Dantean journey from purgatory to paradise.

A new biography of Brent Scowcroft captures some of the man the author once worked for, but only some.

War remains one of the most consistently misunderstood of human behaviors.

The West is struggling to navigate Islam’s major sectarian cleavage; about 500 years ago a Muslim superpower navigated Christendom’s Wars of the Reformation. Anything to learn here, perhaps?

Two entwined truths go far to define U.S. foreign policy: We must promote democracy; and we certainly will make a hash out of it.