US Foreign Policy in The Age of Penury By Paolo von Schirach August 29, 2009 WASHINGTON – Afghanistan is a huge mess. According to most informed experts,...
NATO At 60: Not Much Reason for Celebration WASHINGTON – Quite a long time ago, while in London, I happened to walk in St. James’s Park at...
America: Global Ambitions and No Cash WASHINGTON – Almost lost within the avalanche of news about more and more rescues: the banks, the auto sector,...
If Pakistan Fails WASHINGTON – Afghanistan is a big problem. But if Pakistan fails we have an even bigger problem. And what...
What We Can Learn From Mumbay WASHINGTON – According to reporting in The Wall Street Journal (“Sole Captured Suspect Offers Grims Insights into Massacre“, December...
Europe’s “Soft Power” and the Georgia Crisis WASHINGTON– The way Europe is handling the Russian invasion of Georgia, (including the disturbing corollary of a possible unilateral...
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday The Europeans do very little for the common defense. Is there still a role for the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949? By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...
Asia Rises, America Distracted WASHINGTON – Five years into the invasion of Iraq, defined by its proponents as an essential component of the...
Europe and World Threats WASHINGTON – “We must not –we cannot—become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are...