Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has let China write its own rules despite his demand that all foreign-owned mining ventures sell majority holdings to black Zimbabweans.
Regime change in Syria is an appealing idea, but Islamists stand ready to fill the vacuum in power.
No one covering WikiLeaks has been able to keep up with the Nation’s Greg Mitchell.
Severing the ties that bind disarmament and nonproliferation is not only bad policy, it’s an offense against common sense.
Even if Gaddafi is provided exile, U.S. and NATO airstrikes on Libya could still lead to our extended presence there.
If attacking Libya’s forces leads to the deposal of Gaddafi, who has previously backed down to Western pressure, other states will question the point of cooperating with the West.
The United States comprises the better part of NATO.
Does U.S. intervention in Libya set a precedent for better or worse for a new breed of use of force?
Energy concerns may underlie U.S. involvement in the intervention in Libya, to the exclusion of Bahrain and Yemen.
We shouldn’t let the much greater danger of nuclear weapons obscure the risks of nuclear energy.