When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.