While the presidential primary elections in the United States are not over, Mitt Romney is now almost certain to be the party’s nominee to face Democratic President Barack Obama in November.
A "cyber 9/11" may be more likely than the often-mentioned "cyber Pearl Harbor." It is time for states to sit down and discuss how to limit this threat to world peace.
The problem of America's role in the 21st century is not one of "decline," but rather of developing the contextual intelligence to understand that even the largest country cannot achieve what it wants without others' help.
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is "yes."
In the 2008 US presidential election, the press told us that Obama won because he had "charisma" – the special power to inspire fascination and loyalty.
As Europe struggles to save the euro, the chorus of complaints about weak leadership in the world's major economies grows louder.
The gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past. And this does not mean that China will necessarily replace the US as the world's leading power.
At least for America, perhaps the most important lesson of 9/11 is that US foreign policy should follow the counsel given by President Dwight Eisenhower a half-century ago: Do not get involved in land wars of occupation, and focus on maintaining the strength of the American economy.
Terrorism is a form of theater. It works not by sheer destruction, but rather by dramatizing atrocious acts against civilians. It is like jiu jitsu: the weaker adversary wins by leveraging the power of the stronger against itself.
Some say China's economic rise is signifying a fundamental shift in the balance of global power, but without considering military power. They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power, forgetting that the United States was the world's largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.
Today, many pundits argue that other countries' rising power and the loss of American influence in a revolutionary Middle East point to the decline of "American hegemony."
The US and China should avoid developing exaggerated fears of each other’s capacities and intentions. The expectation of conflict can itself become a cause of conflict.
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