Normalizing a nuclear North Korea offers the United States the opportunity to cauterize the nuclear risk by reducing tensions just as Nixon's normalization cauterized nuclear China in the 1970s, writes Bennett Ramberg.

War between the United States and China is not inevitable, but it is possible, writes Graham Allison. China’s disruptive rise creates conditions in which accidental, otherwise inconsequential events could trigger a large-scale conflict.

If democracy is in recession across the world, America needs to make every effort to reinvigorate it, argues former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Even as the United States and her Pacific allies coalesce around a shared belief that new measures must be taken with regard to North Korea, mutual mistrust and diverging priorities make it harder to choose a path forward, writes Brian Moore.