Ted Galen Carpenter

The Clinton administration's new coziness with China has left India feeling insecure, Taiwan betrayed, and Japan ignored.

Everybody wants to believe that expanding NATO won't cost much, but they are wrong. Extending military guarantees is a big, and expensive, step.

The nonproliferation regime is unraveling, and the Soviet rival is gone. The first goal of U.S. policy should be to keep America out of potential nuclear crossfire.