The International Monetary Fund, many say, has had a good crisis

The Iraq war has reawakened memories of the Vietnam war, the most significant political experience of an entire American generation. But this has not produced clarity about its lessons

At the recent launch of the Asia Society’s Centre on US-China relations in New York, Dr Henry Kissinger talked with its new director, Orville Schell, about the circumstances leading up to that fateful moment in 1971 when, as National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, he journeyed to Beijing to lay the groundwork for the first presidential visit to China since Mao mounted the rostrum at the Gate of Heavenly Peace as leader of a new Communist giant in 1949. Kissinger had the following comments to make

On the threat of Iran, nuclear weapons and possible solutions

Middle East peace talks may bring deal – but who is there to implement it?

Two realities define the range of a meaningful debate on Iraq policy: The war cannot be ended by military means alone. But neither is it possible to ‘end’ the war by ceding the battlefield, for the radical jihadist challenge knows no frontiers, writes Henry Kissinger