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Aside from its economic and commercial potential for Pakistan, the port city of Gwadar has great strategic value, which

Romania. It's come a long way these past 30 years, but can still often be the victim of awful, outdated stereotypes, from Dracula to stray dogs and abandoned orphans. These five books can help you make your own mind up about this often misunderstood country.

The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.

We live in a globalized world with changing technology and shifting geopolitics. As Armstrong notes, “The world of Mahan is today.”

Our chief Africa reporter was wary of journalism that made broad predictions about the continent, but a statistic made clear that staggering change was approaching.

Robert D. Kaplan said that Gaza's dense population and Hamas' vast underground tunnels will pose more challenges than the Marines faced in Fallujah.

Another day, another instance of the White House doing damage control for Sleepy Joe.

From the blog of Catherine Perez-Shakdam at The Times of Israel

Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

By James M Dorsey Protesters in Syria, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, and Israel are dashing autocratic and authoritarian hopes of a prolonged winter. In response, Arab autocrats are scrambling to squash what they fear could evolve into a third wave of protests in little more than a decade. The autocrats have deployed tools ranging from cracking