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But how to help rid Pakistan of its inner demons and problems when most of its own elites have no will to do so will go on baffling policymakers across the globe. Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department of King's College London and ...

ANNE-MARIE Slaughter is returning to Washington, a year after penning a much-discussed article about her frustrations at balancing a demanding career in the executive branch with her family life. The Princeton professor was named the next president of ...

AS the Syrian revolution closes its second year, there is not much hope the third act will be the tragedy's denouement. The political opposition in exile is divided, rebels in Syria spend almost as much time fighting each other as they do the regime, and the battle is at a stalemate.

... attack by a suspected Saudi bomber in Jaar in southwest Yemen. US drone attacks in Yemen tripled last year compared to 2011, according to the Washington-based think tank New America Foundation, and for the first time outnumbered those in Pakistan.

CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen said the film could imply that torture led to bin Laden, which was not true. The Senate intelligence committee was due to vote overnight on whether to approve a report on US interrogation techniques. Ms ...

"For both women, this has become a full-time job," said Liza Mundy, Ms Obama's biographer. "Their mission has been to persuade the electorate to fall in love with this man just as they, the wife, fell in love with him so many wonderful years ago. They ...

New America Foundation national security studies program director Peter Bergen declared earlier this month that "if the price of the drone campaign that increasingly kills only low-level Taliban is alienating 180 million Pakistanis - that is too high a ...

The books, The End of Men and the Rise of Women, by Hanna Rosin, and The Richer Sex, by Liza Mundy, claim the future is female: men, not women, are losing out and being left behind. Women, rather than men, will rule the world. The guts of the argument ...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York and Washington led to a remarkably unanimous response, not just from the West but also from the entire international community.

For the only time in its history, NATO invoked the principle of collective defence enshrined in Article 5 of its founding treaty. This guarantees that the alliance will respond to an armed attack on one of its members.

... Evgeny Morozov's chapter in The Next Digital Decade and, more particularly, Morozov's book The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World (2010), provide another perspective on this debate. Morozov, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, ...