Bush Administration

Not Enough?

Susan Rice's speech was a good start toward global re-engagement. But it was only that -- a start.

BY JOHN NORRIS | AUGUST 13, 2009

Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa

America brought Europe back to life a half-century ago. Why not give Africa the same chance?

BY GLENN HUBBARD | AUGUST 13, 2009

How America Is Funding Corruption in Pakistan

Graft is on the rise in Islamabad, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

BY AZEEM IBRAHIM | AUGUST 11, 2009

Somalia: Too Big a Problem to Fail?

A new hotbed of terror could be a domestic problem for Obama. But he shouldn't treat it like one.

BY KEN MENKHAUS | AUGUST 6, 2009

Censoring the Voice of America

Why is it OK to broadcast terrorist propaganda but not taxpayer-funded media reports?

BY MATT ARMSTRONG | AUGUST 6, 2009

Assassination: A Brief History

When we go to war, what happens when we make our enemies faceless?

BY GEORGE JONAS | JULY 20, 2009

Seven Questions: Jay Garner

The man who first led reconstruction efforts in Iraq says that Arab-Kurd tensions are overblown and that "soft partition" would have been a good idea.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY 15, 2009

Do Targeted Killings Work?

Drone strikes are far from perfect -- but they're also far better than nothing.

BY DANIEL BYMAN | JULY 14, 2009

License to Kill

When I advised the Israel Defense Forces, here's how we decided if targeted kills were legal -- or not.

BY AMOS N. GUIORA | JULY 13, 2009

This Week at War, No. 24

What the four-stars are reading -- a weekly column from Small Wars Journal.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | JULY 10, 2009

Obama's Shallow Realism

Why the U.S. president shouldn't react to one bad foreign policy with another.

BY DAVID GARDNER | JULY 8, 2009

Cut Bibi Some Slack

Why Obama's hard line on Israeli settlements is counterproductive.

BY STEVEN J. ROSEN | JULY 1, 2009

A Road Map to Nowhere

Obama's refusal to dub Israeli settlements illegal is undermining any hope of Middle East peace.

BY FLYNT LEVERETT, HILLARY MANN LEVERETT | JULY 1, 2009

Dreams from His Predecessor

Obama's Afghanistan strategy echoes all the same Bush mistakes -- and more.

BY HILLARY MANN LEVERETT | MARCH 27, 2009

The Bushification of Barack Obama

They have already begun. But attempts to paint the new U.S. president as little more than a clone of his predecessor have only a slim chance of success.

BY MOISÉS NAIM | JANUARY 27, 2009

Whatever Happened to Preemption?

The Bush Doctrine after Bush.

BY MAX BOOT | JANUARY 7, 2009

The Making of George W. Obama

The 2008 U.S. election was all about change. But that's not what we're going to get on foreign policy, says the longtime speechwriter for Condoleezza Rice. Instead of a radical departure from Bush, we're likely to end up with a lot more of the same. And that may be just what we need.

BY CHRISTIAN BROSE | JANUARY 5, 2009

Seven Questions: How to Close Gitmo

Closing Guantánamo sounds easy when you have support from, well, pretty much the entire world. But as former Pentagon insider Matthew Waxman tells FP, it’s not as simple as Barack Obama thinks.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The Worst of the Worst?

They told us to overlook the abuses because Guantánamo housed “the worst of the worst.” But new statistics prove that the vast majority of prisoners detained there never posed any real risk to America at all.

BY KEN BALLEN, PETER BERGEN | OCTOBER 20, 2008

Conventional War

Steven R. Ratner defends his arguments in "Think Again: Geneva Conventions" from White House legal adviser John Bellinger's critiques.

APRIL 10, 2008

The Coming Financial Pandemic

The U.S. financial crisis cannot be contained. Indeed, it has already begun to infect other countries, and it will travel further before it's done. From sluggish trade to credit crunches, from housing busts to volatile stock markets, this is how the contagion will spread.

BY NOURIEL ROUBINI | MARCH 1, 2008

The War We Deserve

It's easy to blame the violence in Iraq and the pitfalls of the war on terror on a small cabal of neocons, a bumbling president, and an overstretched military. But real fault lies with the American people as well. Americans now ask more of their government but sacrifice less than ever before. It's an unrealistic, even deadly, way to fight a global war. And, unfortunately, that's just how the American people want it.

BY ALASDAIR ROBERTS | OCTOBER 11, 2007

Epiphanies: George Soros

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Fortress America

The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is the largest the world has ever known. Thousands will live inside its blast walls, isolated from the bloody realities of a nation at war. Why has the United States built this place -- and what does it mean?

BY JANE C. LOEFFLER | SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Think Again: Condoleezza Rice

She is considered the ultimate team player, a woman of intelligence and poise whose loyalty to President George W. Bush is unwavering. But a closer look reveals that Condi is less intellectual, politically savvier, and far more formidable than people realize.

BY MARCUS MABRY | APRIL 18, 2007

The FP Memo: How to Topple Kim Jong Il

A series of subtle, if not very sexy, policies could help the United States bring an end to North Korea's communist era.

BY ANDREI LANKOV | FEBRUARY 14, 2007

Who Killed Iraq?

After the invasion, America was supposed to help Iraq become a model democracy. Instead, the arrogance of L. Paul Bremer and his team of naïve neocons only helped Iraq become the world's most dangerous nation. This is how it all went wrong -- before it ever had a chance to go right.

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN | AUGUST 11, 2006

The FP Memo: Damage Control

To regain control of American diplomacy, Condoleezza Rice must keep John Bolton in New York, place a mole in his office, and keep the vice president out of the loop.

BY BARBARA CROSSETTE | JUNE 6, 2006

The Blame Game

Who will be blamed for Iraq? It's easy for politicians to point fingers at each other. But ultimately, the buck stops at the Oval Office.

BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 9, 2005