The Alliance Gathers

What NATO Should and Shouldn't Do in Chicago

Jeanne Shaheen
The Alliance Gathers
NATO Secretary General Rasmussen in Brussels. (Francois Lenoir / Courtesy Reuters)
A host of issues confront NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago. Success depends on prioritizing Afghanistan, the Smart Defense Program, and enlargement. Russia can wait.
Snapshot

Crime and Punishment in Afghanistan

Tim Sullivan
The insurgency in Afghanistan has morphed into several criminal networks. Complicating matters is that much of the Afghan government is complicit.
Snapshot

Don't Call It A Crisis

R. Daniel Kelemen
What looks like significant instability is really just the slow-motion settling of the continent's new economic order.
Capsule Review

Coming Apart: The State of White America

Walter Russell Mead
The picture Charles Murray paints of a demoralized white working class living in the ruins of once-healthy social institutions is compelling and alarming.
Snapshot
Meliha Benli Altunisik

Saudi Arabia and Turkey seemed to come together in recent years over trade, energy, Iran, and, most recently, the revolution in Libya. But the two countries' regional goals -- Sunni hegemony in Saudi Arabia's case and region-wide soft power in Turkey's -- differ too much for friendly ties to last long.

Snapshot
Martin A. Schain

Hollande is committed to preserving some of the key achievements of the Mitterrand years. And since the French left is going into the June legislative elections with strong, if not overwhelming, advantages, he will be able to do so.

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Tim K. Mackey, Bryan A. Liang, and Thomas T. Kubic

As much as 15 percent of the medicine in circulation around the world is counterfeit. These drugs can be deadly, yet they are freely available online and have even made their way into reputable health clinics. Selling them is a crime, and it is time for the UN, Interpol, and the World Health Organization to start treating it like one.

Essay
Quintus Tullius Cicero and James Carville

In 64 BC, the great Roman lawyer and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero ran for consul. His younger brother, Quintus, thought Marcus had a chance -- as long as he ran a good campaign. So Quintus wrote a detailed strategy memo laying out just what Marcus needed to do to win. It’s the best guide to electioneering you’ll ever read, presented here with a commentary by the legendary political consultant James Carville.

Video
Gideon Rose and Micah Zenko

Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, discusses "threat hyping" with author Micah Zenko, who argues that the United States is much safer than its politicians and government officials would lead the public to believe.

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Anna Husarska

China's Chen Guangchen, the asylum seeker of the moment, is hardly unique. All oppressive regimes generate defectors, but each regime deals with them in its own way.

Discussion

Liberal democracies need to move beyond simplistic choices, such as that between more and less regulation. The real question is not how much regulation but to what end.
Submitted by John H. on April 4, 2012 - 4:25am