Stabilizing the U.S. relationship with Pakistan is likely to be one the most important challenges this country faces on the international stage in the next ten years.

Still in his twenties and having only a few years of experience within the government’s highest echelons, Kim Jong Eun’s legitimacy will depend largely on his ability to emulate his predecessors.

As China’s economic and military capabilities continue to develop rapidly, Southeast Asia has emerged as a strategic region and an area of potential conflict between China and the United States.

Turkey’s balanced secular government represents a possible method in which moderate Islamic political movements can provide their populations with the freedoms often attributed to Western society and the values of an Islamic one.