The first question is about to be answered. The main object of the "new era of engagement," Iran, has settled back into its old game-playing. The joint proposal agreed to by the United States, France and Russia, to have Iran ship 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium to Russia this year, was a compromise, as administration officials acknowledge. It might theoretically have delayed Iran's bomb program by a year or so...]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 And to some extent, they did. Europe, liberated from fear of the Soviet Union, became consumed with the hard work of building the new Europe. In the 1990s, the European Union charted a new course in human evolution, proving that nations could pool sovereignty and replace power politics with international law. This helped fuel an era of international norm setting and institution building. For many around the world, but especially for Europeans, a new international conversation about global governance supplanted old Cold War preoccupations. Concerns about climate change produced the Kyoto Protocol. A new International Criminal Court was in gestation. Many worked for international...]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500