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Murderous organizations have increased in size and scope; they are more daring, they are served by the more terrible weapons offered by modern science, and the worm is nowadays threatened [...]

Credibility is a nation's greatest asset in international affairs. It is the hardest to earn and the most difficult to maintain, but once possessed it makes it possible to compel [...]

The most significant consequences to the U.S. of the war in Iraq and reasons for continuing their occupation of Iraq rather than a pull-out is discussed.

Sir Halford Mackinder and Norman Angell were two British scholars who wrote two distinct theories on international relations which have become the benchmarks for further studies on world politics. In today's scenario, Mackinder's concept of great power geopolitics accepted after the world wars has given way to Angell's theory that all major power wars between nations are futile and nearly a century after the theory was written Norman Angell's vision has found justification.

After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan by Amb. James F. Dobbins. Washington, DC, Potomac Books, 2008. 179 pp. $24.95. The effort to build a functioning state in Afghanistan, which has [...]