Zachary Keck

John Kerry’s claim that poverty causes terrorism underscores America’s continued failure to understand terrorists.

The reported oil-for-goods agreement between Russia and Iran aims to force America’s hand on the nuclear talks.

All around the world China's support for authoritarian states is backfiring.

Initial reviews of the former defense secretary’s memoirs suggest Obama made the right call on Afghanistan.

The arguments for a U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities are as unconvincing as ever.

Population decline will limit Tokyo’s ability to be a major power in the decades ahead.

Revolutions are the antithesis to America’s own history, and to its geostrategic and normative interests.

It is extremely unlikely that China will invade Taiwan, much less succeed.

Unprecedented improvements in U.S.-China mil-to-mil ties have not appreciably reduced tensions.

While the possibility cannot be ruled out, there's little reason to believe another nuclear test is imminent.

The US foreign policy community is far less concerned with existing nuclear arsenals than potential future ones.

Despite important differences, the East China Sea dispute in many ways mirrors the Berlin question.