People have multiple identities.

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.

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

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.