U.S. Clout a Missing Ingredient in Mideast
World |
August 8, 2006
As the Bush administration seeks to negotiate a diplomatic end to the
fighting in the Middle East, it finds it has a strikingly weak hand. Read more
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On Cease-Fire, U.S. Diplomacy Again Takes a Go-It-Alone Path
World |
August 1, 2006
Reeling from a week of diplomatic setbacks in the Middle East,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice limped home Monday insisting that
the United States would back a cease-fire agreement to end the war in
Lebanon only if it contained the seeds of a long-term settlement to
the crisis. Read more
In U.S., Calls Grow for Direct Contact With Syria
World |
July 29, 2006
As international leaders search for a negotiated end to the violence
in Lebanon, there is little doubt that the go-to state is Syria,
Hezbollah’s powerful ally and perhaps the only Arab state capable of
guaranteeing a lasting peace. Read more
This Hearing on U.N. Envoy Is More Diplomatic
National |
July 28, 2006
America’s combative U.N. ambassador, John R. Bolton, launched a
second campaign to win full Senate approval Thursday, saying he had
done his best “to work with others to advance our national interests”
during his year at the world body. Read more
If Peace Comes, Just Who’ll Go In to Keep It?
World |
July 26, 2006
The Bush administration’s effort to assemble an international
peacekeeping force for Lebanon has quickly run into several
roadblocks, including one especially daunting: Few countries seem
willing to commit troops, especially without a cease-fire agreement
in place. Read more
Southeast Asia’s new best friend
Opinion |
June 17, 2006
THE MAPS SPREAD ACROSS the desk of senior Thai trade official Pisanu
Rienmahasarn show an important piece of Southeast Asia’s future: a
highway that, when it opens next year, will run more than 1,000 miles
from Kunming in southwestern China, through Laos, to the ports of
southern Thailand and beyond. Read more
U.S.-South Korea Relationship Has Soured
World |
January 17, 2006
As the Bush administration strengthens ties in Asia as part of a
hedging strategy to contain fast-rising China, it has allowed a key
relationship in the region to fray: its half-century-old alliance
with South Korea. Read more
Skepticism at Home Threatens Bush’s Vision
World |
January 15, 2006
Nearly a year after President Bush declared that America had to push
the boundaries of democracy in the Middle East and elsewhere to
assure the survival of its own freedom, his initiative has met with
stiff resistance abroad. Read more
Without Sharon, Bush’s Mideast Path Uncertain
World |
January 6, 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke has left a gaping hole
in the Bush administration’s approach to resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and stabilizing the broader Middle East. Read more
Iran Says It Will Restart Nuclear Fuel Research
World |
January 4, 2006
Iran announced Tuesday that it would resume nuclear fuel research
next week, provoking new concern from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog
agency and nations, including the United States, that are convinced
Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Read more
