Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
Stephen Kinzer
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians... →
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political... →
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of... →
William Kirby
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on... →
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low... →
Jeane Kirkpatrick
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are... →
Walter Kirn