Libya was the diplomatic crossroads of the planet last week, with Condoleezza Rice making the first visit by a United States secretary of state in 55 years (to discuss a murky deal involving payments to American victims of terrorist attacks allegedly sponsored by Libya), radical Bolivian president Evo Morales showing up (to beg for money or cheap oil) and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arriving to promise Libya $5 billion in compensation for the brutalities of Italian colonial rule.
Thaksin Shinawatra is shaping up to be the Juan Peron of Thailand, with the significant difference that he is a rich Peron.
Four weeks ago, when the Georgian army foolishly invaded South Ossetia and the Russian army drove it back out, I wrote that we shouldn't worry about a new Cold War.
If Hurricane Gustav had struck New Orleans with full force, what would that have told us about the scale and speed of climate change?
Cynicism and hypocrisy are always part of international politics, but in the case of Poland and the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) missiles everybody is over-fulfilling their norm.
What does his choice of Joe Biden as vice-presidential running mate tell us about Barack Obama's true foreign policy outlook?
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, is a remarkable case of institutional survival in the face of changing circumstances.
Three weeks ago, the Indian Government did everything but raise the dead to win a crucial vote on its nuclear deal with the United States.
The war in South Ossetia is essentially over, and the Georgians have lost.
"I am proud to be a citizen of a country where the prime minister can be investigated like an ordinary citizen," said Ehud Olmert on July 30, announcing that he would resign as prime minister in September to defend himself against corruption allegations.
"Safety is our top concern," said China's Vice-president Xi Jinping in late July, pointing to the deployment of 100,000 troops around Beijing and the surface-to-air missile batteries that protect the main stadiums as proof of the regime's determination to ensure that no terrorist attack would disrupt the Olympic Games.
You have to hand it to the economics team at Goldman Sachs.
Radovan Karadzic's disguise was quite elaborate, but he didn't spend the past 13 years hiding from the Serbian authorities.
All the opposition groups in Darfur celebrated when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced on 14 July that he was seeking the indictment of Sudan's President Omar al Bashir on the charge of genocide, but almost everybody else had a problem with it.
Barack Obama wants three things out of his tour of the Middle East and Europe.
The Iranians have clearly concluded that all the American and Israeli threats to attack them are mere bluff.
"Damn! I think we just passed the last exit for the Holocene!"
The Ottoman Empire had already been in retreat for over a century when the Young Turk revolution broke out in July 1908.
Reading the first reports about the accusations against Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, I had to check the date at the top of the page.
Gwynne Dyers explains how "gotcha" tactics undermine debate in the US election campaign of serious issues such as the "terrorist threat".
