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Byline: Daniel Sneider Late in April, as the North Koreans appeared to be preparing to test new medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the top American military [...]

Japanese voters went to the polls on Sunday with one overriding aim --- to bring an end to more than a half-century of nearly uninterrupted one-party conservative rule. The monumental [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider SEOUL, South Korea _ The North Korean nuclear issue is lurching inexorably toward another moment of crisis. It is a crisis no one wants _ except maybe [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The Bush administration has a curious policy when it comes to nuclear weapons _ not only to stop their spread but to build them. The administration's proposed [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Among the things to celebrate this Lunar New Year is a thaw in relations between mainland China and Taiwan. The most visible sign of that trend is [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Just recently, the White House and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sent the top National Security Council official on Asia, Michael Green, on a quick tour of [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider However flawed, the Iraqi election is undeniably 'a grand moment in Iraqi history,' as President Bush put it. The question is, what kind of moment? It will [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider For those of us who witnessed the joy and the drama of the end of communist rule in the Soviet Union, the last decade has been disappointing. [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Expect smiles all around when President Bush meets Chinese leader Hu Jintao later this week in Chile at the annual summit of Asian Pacific leaders. U.S.-China relations [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Counterterror specialists look for 'chatter' in Islamic extremist circles preceding an attack. There is a lot of chatter going on today in Washington _ only this time, [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider There are three potential flash points for war in Asia that keep security experts awake at night _ the Korean Peninsula, the Taiwan Strait, and India and [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The sight of millions of Afghans casting ballots for the first time in their history was heartening. After decades of civil war, foreign invasion and extremist rule, [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Here are three numbers that ought to matter to you. $2.30. $51. $300 billion. The first number is what I paid for a gallon of gas Tuesday [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The Republicans have hammered away, with some justification, on John Kerry's back and forth views on the Iraq war. But President Bush's case for the Iraq war, [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider When it comes to national security, the elephant in the room is Iran. Beneath the din of pumped up political rhetoric about the war on terrorism, the [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider HANOI, Vietnam _ A conversation with Ton Nu Thi Ninh is a disarming experience. Dressed in traditional Vietnamese dress, an embroidered blue ao dai, Madame Ninh exudes [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider As a reporter in Moscow, I had the privilege of witnessing one of the great events of the past century _ the end of Soviet communism and [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider When George W. Bush came to the White House more than three years ago, conventional wisdom was that he would hew closely to the classic Republican realism [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The only thing missing from President Bush's giddy embrace of the new Iraqi government in the Rose Garden on Tuesday was the 'Mission Accomplished' banner. But the [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider President Bush has been accused of not having a clear plan for the transfer of power to a sovereign Iraqi government. Instead, critics say, Bush offers little [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider American leaders readily understand the power of the free market and the principle of one man, one vote. But they suffer from one consistent blind spot when [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The Democratic presidential primary last week in Wisconsin had two clear outcomes. It reduced the field to John Kerry and John Edwards. And it brought the issue [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The struggle for Iraq's future is not only about who holds power. It is about who has the legitimacy to rule. Ambassador Paul Bremer, who runs the [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider Since the end of the Cold War, the main American national security worry has been rogue states, hostile countries that operate outside the boundaries of international law. [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider One of the things that keeps world leaders up at night is the prospect of another war between the India and Pakistan _ this time with nuclear [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider While the attention of the world was riveted by the capture of Saddam Hussein, an event of potentially greater importance last Sunday was lost amid the back-thumping. [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider President Bush is fond of citing Japan as an example of a country that became a thriving democracy while under American occupation. Leaving aside the dubious comparison [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians used to joke that their once mighty superpower had become so impoverished it was now 'Bangladesh with nuclear weapons.' [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider The arrest of Russia's richest oil tycoon, followed by the seizure of almost half the shares of his globally traded Yukos company, has suddenly brought Russia again [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider In Iraq, the United States is trying to turn a strategic, oil-rich dictatorship into a democratic model for the Muslim world. A few hundred miles to the [...]

Byline: Daniel Sneider President Bush's week-long swing through six Asian nations is long overdue. Despite being home to half the world's population and the globe's most dynamic economies, Asia has [...]