Russia is currently riding high on the geostrategic landscape, despite a trove of domestic economic woes that stem partly from Western sanctions. But Vladimir Putin has successfully wagged the dog and distracted Russians from this by illegally annexing Crimea by...
As I've already noted, former President George W. Bush is apparently settling some scores in his new memoir. In Europe, his passages about former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are attracting a...
Imagine for a moment that the world is a community of states. For decades, European states have lived just across the pond from some of the richest and most powerful people in the world: the...
With all of the excellent almost-real-time analysis going on around here lately, I haven't felt the need to chime in myself; my Duck colleagues are doing an excellent job, and they are more...
Secretary of State Condi Rice and President George Bush made news this week by calling for global action to prevent global warming. However, neither one even really hinted at caps, limits, or mandatory cuts in so-called greenhouse gases. Secretary Rice kicked off the White House's climate summit by declaring "it is our responsibility as global leaders to forge a new international consensus on how to address climate change." In the end, however, Rice sounded like a confirmed libertarian -- or maybe an "artiste", or gnarly surfer dude -- unwilling to be bound by any rules, man: "Every country...