Published On: April 21, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
NEW YORK – It has been nearly 60 years since the philosopher and historian Thomas Kuhn wrote his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn’s thesis was simple but heretical: Breakthroughs in science occur not through the gradual accumulation of small changes to existing thinking, but rather from the sudden emergence of radical ideas that cause existing models to be replaced with something fundamentally different.
Published On: March 20, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Trump seems to harbor the equally unrealistic notion that North Korea will voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons
Published On: February 20, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Crisis over Taiwan could wreck China’s relations with the US and many of its neighbors and rock an already shaky Chinese economy
Published On: January 16, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
America’s policy in Afghanistan should be one that avoids the risks of a rapid, unconditional exit but also minimizes the costs of staying
Published On: December 18, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
European Union has been too remote, too bureaucratic, and too elite-driven for too long
Published On: December 4, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
The US flourished as a result of the many contributions of its 41st president. Many benefited
Published On: November 22, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Saudi strategy for dealing with the outcry over Khashoggi’s murder is clear: hunker down and weather the storm
Published On: August 26, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Imposition of additional US tariffs allows Erdoğan to blame his country’s economic woes on America, rather than on his own government’s incompetence
Published On: August 1, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Trump prefers free-flowing sessions in which the written outcome can be vague, as it was in Singapore, or non-existent, as it was in Helsinki
Published On: June 18, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Missing was any definition of what denuclearization might entail, a timeline for implementation, or a reference to how any actions would be verified
Published On: June 6, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
North Korea could be the best thing for the relationship between the USA and China since the collapse of the Soviet Union
Published On: April 24, 2018 12:23 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Somewhat smaller strike undertaken a year ago failed to change Syrian behavior, and the latest attack is no more likely to do so.
Published On: March 25, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Three components of liberal world order—liberalism, universality, and the preservation of order itself—are being challenged as never before
Published On: February 27, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
A quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, we unexpectedly find ourselves in a second one. It is both different and familiar
Published On: January 16, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Pakistan wants an Afghanistan in which the Taliban play a dominant role. The US, for many reasons, does not.
Published On: December 18, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
The only plan to this Israeli government is likely to agree will offer Palestinians far less than they have demanded.
Published On: November 8, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
Trump and Xi must find a way to defuse the looming crisis on the Korean Peninsula, or manage the results should diplomacy fail.
Published On: August 20, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
TOKYO: It is too soon to know whether and how the challenge posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs will be resolved. But it is not too early to consider what that challenge could mean for a part of the world that has in many ways defied history.
Published On: July 26, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
The alternatives for dealing with nuclear proliferation do not necessarily improve with the passage of time.
Published On: June 26, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Richard N Haass
A shift away from US-dominated world of structured relationships and standing institutions and toward something else is under way