Bush's Legacy
The Iraqi Revolution We'll Never Know
Imagine for a moment that the United States never invaded Iraq. Would the Arab Spring have toppled Saddam anyway?
BY MICHAEL WAHID HANNA | JANUARY 17, 2012
Threats and Promises
Do Obama’s red lines with Iran and others really mean “or else”?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 13, 2012
The LWOT: U.S. citizen charged with terrorism offense in Florida
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | JANUARY 10, 2012
A Little Humility
If Iraq has taught us anything, let it be this.
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 23, 2011
The World According to Ron Paul
Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
What should America do about the Arab Spring? Not much.
BY F. GREGORY GAUSE III | DECEMBER 21, 2011
With Us or (Mostly) Against Us
The Republican presidential hopefuls have a pretty clear idea of who they think America's enemies are. But what about its friends?
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The Hawks' New Flight Pattern
Neocons blew off concerns about Iranian influence in Iraq in 2003. Why are they so obsessed with it now?
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Up in Smoke
Did the idea of a legal war die along with Muammar al-Qaddafi?
BY SCOTT HORTON | OCTOBER 25, 2011
The World According to Condi
Who did Condoleezza Rice loathe -- and love? The former secretary of state dishes in her new book on everyone from Dick Cheney to Muammar al-Qaddafi.
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Debating the Pacific Century
In the November issue of Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues that it's time for the United States to move on from its costly wars in the Middle East, and make a strategic "pivot" to Asia. FP asked four smart observers to take the measure of Clinton's plans for engagement in the Far East.
OCTOBER 14, 2011
The LWOT: NYPD Watched Moroccan Immigrants - Report
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND AND ANDREW LEBOVICH | SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
The Wars America Doesn't Talk About
A disturbing triumphalism over the Libya intervention has emerged amid the conspiracy of silence over the bloody mess in Afghanistan.
BY SUSAN GLASSER | SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Doom and Gloom
Interpreting the American public mood on the 9/11 decade.
BY SHIBLEY TELHAMI | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
9/11 from Arab Shores
Ten years after the World Trade Center attacks, is 9/11 still a seminal moment or a historical footnote for the Middle East?
BY BORZOU DARAGAHI | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Return of the Renditioned
A Libyan rebel commander claims he was captured and tortured by the CIA. Who else has surfaced from the murky depths of the war on terror's list of the condemned?
BY KATHERINE HAWKINS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Mission Accomplished. Finally.
Ten years after 9/11, it's time for President Obama to finally call an end to America's adventures abroad.
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the War on Terror
From an attempt to negotiate with Osama bin Laden to a proposal to threaten to bomb Mecca, it's been a wild decade for the U.S. national security establishment.
BY ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS SHANKER | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
Is There a Map to the Future?
The former head of the U.S. National Intelligence Council explains why governments try -- and fail -- to see over the horizon.
BY ROBERT HUTCHINGS | AUGUST 31, 2011
Lightning Rod
As Dick Cheney's punch-throwing memoir hits store shelves, Foreign Policy hosts a freewheeling debate on the legacy of America's most controversial vice president.
AUGUST 31, 2011
The Long War's Long Tail
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's new book, Bin Laden's Legacy, wonders which side actually is winning the war on terror.
BY J.M. BERGER | AUGUST 30, 2011
The Black Hole of 9/11
As we assess the legacy of the 10th anniversary of America's seminal terrorist attack, it's worth looking at 10 events from the past decade that have actually been more important.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | AUGUST 29, 2011
The Baghdad Syndrome
Eight not-so-simple steps to making sure that Libya doesn't repeat Iraq's mistakes.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | AUGUST 26, 2011
Ready for Day One
Meet the Libyan postwar planners who put the Bush administration's Iraq team to shame.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 26, 2011
The LWOT: NYPD worked with CIA on surveillance - Report
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND AND ANDREW LEBOVICH | AUGUST 26, 2011
The Cowboy Abroad
We know plenty about what Rick Perry, the GOP's newest presidential front-runner, thinks of America. But what about the rest of the world?
BY ERICA GRIEDER | AUGUST 24, 2011
Come Together
Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?
BY DAVID BOSCO | AUGUST 18, 2011
All Guns, No Butter
What the debt ceiling deal tells us about the Tea Party's grim vision of American power.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 5, 2011
The LWOT: Dozens killed in Norway attacks
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND AND ANDREW LEBOVICH | JULY 29, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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