This month, a curious thing happened in the annals of diplomacy. A country offered up a peace plan to put an end to a seemingly endless civil war in Syria. This country was not one of the usual foreign policy suspects — it was not the United States, it was not in Europe, and it wasn’t Syria’s […]
Whether or not America‘s politicians can find a way to sidestep the brutal automatic military cuts of sequestration, the era of rising Western spending on weapons and wars is over. That reality increasingly is challenging major arms manufacturers, spurring them to look for new markets, cost cuts and mergers. It is also confronting policymakers with difficult […]
A new free-trade agreement is under negotiation in the Asia-Pacific. If the talks are successful, the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) will bring closer together at least 11 economies in East Asia and the Americas. But it faces many hurdles, and raises broader geopolitical issues. For example, China, the world’s second-largest economy, is not part of […]
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