Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.