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The North Korean nuclear test: Why should we care?

Michael Mazza | February 12, 2013, 11:43 am

What does the latest test mean for North Korea’s nuclear program? We know North Korea has a uranium enrichment program and we know they want to miniaturize a warhead. What we don’t know is whether this was a highly-enriched uranium … read more >

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the press following his meeting with Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird (not pictured) at the State Department in Washington, February 8, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Foreign and Defense Policy, Asia

John Kerry’s first test

Michael Auslin | February 12, 2013, 9:47 am

North Korea’s nuclear test yesterday (its third) is the first challenge for new Secretary of State John Kerry. His response will indicate whether the Obama administration has any new ideas for dealing with North Korea or whether it will go … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Latin America

Kerry pledges to press for democracy and anti-drug cooperation from Venezuela

Roger Noriega | February 5, 2013, 12:54 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry has told the US Senate that the United States will insist that “any new elections [in Venezuela] should be democratic, constitutional, peaceful, and transparent and must respect the universal human rights of the Venezuelan people.” … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Latin America

Iran-Venezuela money laundering confirmed?

Roger Noriega | February 4, 2013, 4:19 pm

An Iranian man caught by authorities “trying to enter Germany with a check worth about $70 million” is the chairman of a suspicious Venezuelan bank that is wholly owned by Iran’s black-listed Saderat Bank. Even as US diplomats rush to … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Asia

What pivot?

Claude Barfield | January 31, 2013, 4:20 pm

One might be tempted to argue that Gary Schmitt’s post from earlier today, “The questions they should have asked Kerry,” is nitpicking, taking a minor excerpt from the hours’ long nomination hearing appearance and blowing it up beyond real importance. … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

The questions they should have asked Kerry

Gary Schmitt | January 31, 2013, 8:42 am

An interesting tidbit that seemed to get lost in the Senate’s rush to confirm John Kerry as Secretary of State this week were the comments he made during his nomination hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about US policy … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Sigh, John Kerry

Danielle Pletka | December 21, 2012, 11:15 am

It’s hard to like John Kerry. Ask the other 99 members of the US Senate. His staff. The American people. But it is a testament to Obama’s other dreadful nominations floated for national security jobs that Kerry suddenly looks…ok. Susan … read more >

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan E. Rice attend the dignified transfer ceremony for the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens. Image credit: Official Secretary of Defense Flickr

Foreign and Defense Policy

Ask the scholars: Who’s on deck for State and Defense?

Brittany French | November 15, 2012, 1:21 pm

There’s been a ton of talk in the media over who President Obama will appoint as successors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Rumors are flying that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Kerry on Obama foreign policy: Charting and thinking vs. leading and winning

Danielle Pletka | September 6, 2012, 11:49 am

John Kerry’s going to give the Big Democratic National Security Speech tonight. He’s also doing his Big Audition for SecState in a second Obama administration. read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Romney’s interference on Iran

Danielle Pletka | March 8, 2012, 2:19 pm

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post entitled Romney’s wrong-headed assertions about Iran. The piece is so… Amazing, one hardly knows where to begin. Let’s start with the premise: Romney is … read more >

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