Reconsidering a great American historian who faced some familiar dilemmas.

What's behind it? And can it last?

Creating a zone of democratic peace from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

Proposals for beefing up the non-kinetic side of U.S. statecraft.

Poland's vast, untapped reserves of shale gas can transform global energy markets and European-Russian relations.

A conversation with Pavel Bratinka on the legacy of 20th-century totalitarianism in the Czech Republic.

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us fights the latest upsurge of American declinism to a draw.

American master essayist Joseph Epstein adds Gossip to his literary quiver.

An American foreign policy doctrine for the nonpolar moment.

Hungarian democracy is in retreat; even the U.S. State Department has begun to notice.