Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Turkey leader to press Obama for greater U.S. role on Syria

2013-05-15 15:40:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he considers a desperate plea from a longtime U.S. ally. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to urge...

USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders

2013-05-06 20:00:00

WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...

North Korea belligerence looms ominously over Iran nuclear talks

2013-04-05 02:00:00

More carrot, less stick. That’s the advice of some nonproliferation experts for the United States and its five partners in negotiations that resume Friday aimed at dissuading Iran from building a nuclear bomb. But with threats of nuclear...

Message to Russian oligarchs: Your money's just as safe at home

2013-03-27 02:00:00

It’s been a rough week for Russian oligarchs, with the apparent suicide of exiled Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky as well as a Eurozone rescue of Cyprus expected to come largely at the expense of Russian high rollers who stashed their wealth in...

Could tiny Cyprus trigger collapse of the Eurozone?

2013-03-20 02:00:00

It’s being marketed as a one-time tax -- a civic donation to the nation’s financial stability. But the people of Cyprus know it by another name: expropriation. A government plan to siphon as much as 10% from individual bank deposits to co-...

France, Western allies likely to be mired in Mali for years

2013-01-30 02:00:00

French troops backing a Mali government campaign to retake the northern half of the country from Islamic militants have been cheered as liberators since their convoys rolled into historic Timbuktu this week and hundreds of paratroopers dropped from the...

Google this: North Korea open to Western help with Net upgrade?

2013-01-09 02:00:00

A freelance diplomatic foray to North Korea by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google executive Eric Schmidt has kicked up both controversy and expectations of insights into the inscrutable Hermit Kingdom. State Department officials...

A deadly denouement for foreign troops in Afghanistan

2012-08-22 05:04:03

China-U.S. power play at core of East Asian island disputes

2012-09-12 05:03:23

Islamophobia as free speech -- a notion that escapes many Muslims

2012-09-13 05:03:12

Latest threat to the Eurozone: Catalonia independence quest

2012-09-29 02:13:10

U.S., allies marshaling African proxies for fight against terrorism

2012-10-31 05:04:00

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks on the 'State of International Religious Freedom' on July 30 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C.

2012-08-22 07:27:00