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Organizers of NATO's 50th anniversary summit had anticipated a celebration of NATO success in winning the Cold War. Instead, they were hard-pressed to avoid the pall of the funeral of [...]

Bravo, Turkey! The most significant Muslim secular state, anchored between Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, clearly has demonstrated its courage and independence by defying an Islamic conference that […]

The abrupt firing of Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's former national security adviser, tells us much about Yeltsin, his rule and his camarilla. It reveals the corporate, capitalist, [...]

The Clinton administration is preparing a formal policy on peacekeeping missions that may become the major prescription for maintaining peace in the post-Cold War world. A six-part classified document called [...]

Now that the agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization has been signed in Washington, it's time to consider what happens next. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza [...]

Three times during the most critical crossroads of this century, American academics, journalists, professional seers and leaders in the political community turned out to be wrong in their visions of [...]

Yet again, the United States and the international community are confronted and being forced to grapple with the realities of Somali anarchy, violence and instability. Months of a U.S. and [...]

While the United States and Europe dither falteringly in the hopeless quagmire of Bosnia and the disintegrating former Yugoslavia, the shadow of an imposing new potential economic and military colossus [...]

In Slobodan Milosevic, the United States faces a strategist much more cunning than his Croatian and certainly his Muslim rivals. The Serb advantage isn't just in terms of military hardware, [...]

In an interview in the New York Times in early April, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt blamed the United States for helping create an Islamic terrorist network by supporting the [...]

If communism has often been described as a disease, then Islamic fundamentalism is a plague infecting the entire Islamic world, from Morocco to India. The menace of communism was always [...]

The NATO allies agreed Nov. 18 to tighten economic sanctions against Serbia by enforcing a naval blockade on both the Adriatic Sea and the Danube River (with the help of [...]

It has been alleged that the U.S. intelligence community has installed a spy device -- with the help of a U.N. special commission, or UNSCOM -- in Iraq. The indignation […]

To conduct the foreign policy of a major power, in fact a superpower, requires that the officer in charge of foreign policy, the commander in chief, demonstrate leadership. By leadership […]

If authoritative reports are true that President Clinton undermined, in 1996 and 1997, the courageous and penetrating work of the United Nations Special Commission, or UNSCOM, then he unwittingly has [...]

The defection of Saddam Hussein's daughters and sons-in-law, especially Hussein Kamel Hassan, may indicate the beginning of the end of Saddam's capricious, tyrannical rule. Jordan, Saddam's only neighboring ally, has [...]

While the president, the National Security Council, the State Department and the media all were focused on the Haitian mouse that roared, developments elsewhere, particularly in the Middle East, have […]

Disturbing reports have emerged of a shift in US. foreign policy in dealing with the threat of Islamic fundamentalism as it has manifested in Algeria. 'Islam is not the issue,' [...]

Given certain conditions that exist on the international scene -- the collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent retreat from leadership by the United States under the Clinton administration, [...]