By Katrin Bennhold PARIS: President Jacques Chirac, 74, announced Sunday that after 12 years in the Élysée Palace he would not seek a third term, clearing the way for a new generation of French leaders to compete for the highest office….more
By Reuters DRESDEN: U.S. plans to build a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic are dangerous and absurd, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said Sunday….more
By Brian Knowlton WASHINGTON: Both U.S. and Iranian diplomats Sunday cautiously welcomed as an important “first step” the results of the regional meeting in Baghdad that brought a rare face-to-face encounter between the two sides…more
By Niall Ferguson Chaos theory proposes that, by merely flapping its wings in the Amazonian jungle, a single butterfly can cause a hurricane in the Home Counties. That is because of the extraordinary complexity of the global climatic system: one tiny bit of turbulence in darkest Brazil can, under the right circumstances, trigger a kind […]
By Ronald Asmus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose speech at the Munich security conference on Feb. 10 has caused some to revive their arguments against enlarging NATO. The policy was wrongheaded because it produced the nationalist policies that emanate from Moscow today, they say. NATO expansion was a bad idea, they argue, because it enraged […]