Richard Haass’s op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal is a must read. That’s true regardless of whether you agree with his recommendation to return to a level of 30,000 U.S. troops by mid-2012.  (Fo…

Security Council members meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters) The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I talked about the continued pro…

A session of the United Nations Security Council in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The UN Security Council witnessed a rare double veto on Tuesday. Both Russia and Ch…

You have to feel a lot of sympathy for senior State Department officials today.  While the rest of us spent the Thanksgiving weekend bingeing on turkey, watching football, or scoring big discounts …

Welcome to a special edition of “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, highlighting 2015’s most sign…