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Cover Story
India Turmoil, Afghan Talks May Be
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People of World Influence
Ex-Envoy to Spain Reflects on
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Arabia’s ‘Near Abroad’
Gulf Rivalries Play Out in Horn
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Cascading Competition
Mekong River in Southeast Asia,
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Institutional Limits
Nestor Mendez Discusses OAS
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Global Vantage Point
Op-ed: U.N. Peacekeeping Missions
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Medical
Depression, Alzheimer’s Might Be
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Alan Solomont, the former U.S. envoy to Spain, talks about pulling Spain back from economic calamity, the pros and cons of political ambassadors, the underappreciated value of U.S. embassies and the desperate need for civics in today’s toxic political climate. 
The Mekong River, Southeast Asia’s economic and trade lifeline, has become the latest strategic battleground in the tug of war for influence between China and the United States. 
Nestor Mendez, assistant secretary-general of the Organization of American States, admits that the OAS has little power to influence events in Venezuela, but he insists that the bloc’s moral authority is making a difference. 
Peacekeepers have been given mandates that are impossible to accomplish because it has become a way for rich countries to send the soldiers of poor countries off to deal with wars the rich countries do not care about. 
New research is untangling the complex relationship between symptoms of depression and losses in memory and thinking that often emerge together with Alzheimer’s disease. 