David Cameron's former director of strategy has a manifesto for the modern world

A world without the US as global policeman will collapse into chaos

The interventionist dam broke with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inaction in Syria could mark the end of our duty to protect

Catherine Ashton heads a wasteful, top-heavy and ineffectual project costing European taxpayers half a billion pounds a year

The selective silence of leading lights in the counter-Jihad movement fuels the violence of Anders Breivik and other European fascists

Two new books come to different conclusions about the geo-political impact of the coming population boom

Critics like to think that neoconservative ideas lie buried in the sands of Iraq. But neocons are still in the mainstream of US politics

Until Republicans convince voters that strong foreign policy is crucial to national security, America’s decline will continue

Reading Mark Mazower is like being lectured by the best left-wing lecturer you'll ever have: he is brilliant but tiresome

'The President's guilt-inspired attitude towards Islam was set out in his Cairo speech of 2009, with the Muslim Brotherhood in the front row'