‘Western optimists like to assume North Korea is on the verge of implosion. But the hermit kingdom is not going to collapse any time soon’

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

Obama persists in trying to talk to a regime whose “sacred cause” is to replace a US-led world order with an Islamic one

Geoffrey Robertson's latest target is nuclear Iran. But his new book looks through the prism of "legal architectures" and so cannot offer real suggestions as to how to stop the Iranians get the bomb