Diplomacy

Scared Tactics

Why America will be paying for decades for a foreign policy based on fear.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 18, 2013

Regime Change in Qatar

Knee-deep in Syria's civil war and surrounded by family quarrels, Qatar's emir is looking to hand over the country to his 33-year-old son.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JUNE 14, 2013

Wings of Change

Which faction of Turkey's ruling party will emerge the strongest after the Istanbul protests?

BY AARON STEIN | JUNE 7, 2013

Rice, Power, and Hope

Did Obama just change Washington from the inside?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 6, 2013

Paranoid Republic

No summit can bridge the political gap between Washington and Beijing.

BY MINXIN PEI | JUNE 6, 2013

China's New Backyard

Does Washington realize how deeply Beijing has planted a flag in Latin America?

BY R. EVAN ELLIS | JUNE 6, 2013

The Head of China's Petitioning Office

Why Barack Obama can't afford to take human rights off the agenda when he meets with Xi Jinping.

BY SOPHIE RICHARDSON | JUNE 6, 2013

The Combative Consigliere

Will Susan Rice bring out a more muscular side of Barack Obama?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 6, 2013

How Obama Tried and Failed to Make Friends with China

Don't expect much from the upcoming summit -- we've been down this road before.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | JUNE 5, 2013

Peace Offensive

Obama thinks he can solve the world’s most intractable conflicts. What if he’s wrong?

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 5, 2013

Xi's Not Ready

Why Obama should skip the shirt-sleeves summit with China's new leader.

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | JUNE 4, 2013

How to Negotiate Like a Pashtun

A field guide to dealing with the Taliban.

BY JONAH BLANK | JUNE 3, 2013

Karzai's India Gamble

Pakistan isn't helping the Afghan government end its standoff with the Taliban -- so Karzai is looking to India instead. 

BY MUJIB MASHAL | MAY 31, 2013

Kerry's Syrian Quagmire

As the secretary of state tries to get the rebels and the regime to the negotiating table, a State Department official says it would take "sarin gas being lobbed at Tel Aviv" for Washington to take military action.

BY GAYLE LEMMON | MAY 31, 2013

Arms Twisting

Why won't Obama sign his own weapons treaty next week?

BY RACHEL STOHL | MAY 30, 2013

Think Again: A Nuclear Iran

Why it won’t be the end of the world if the mullahs get the bomb.

BY ALIREZA NADER | MAY 28, 2013

What I Left Out

I wrote a book about 1979, but I left out the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Here’s why.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MAY 24, 2013

The War Professor

Can Obama finally make the legal case for his war on terror?

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 23, 2013

Gitmo's Fallen Czar

Daniel Fried was the perfect man for the hardest job in Washington, but even he couldn’t close Guantanamo.

BY MICHELLE SHEPHARD | MAY 22, 2013

War Scare

The real-life war game that almost led to nuclear armageddon.

BY NATE JONES | MAY 21, 2013

Metternich in Baghdad

No, America hasn't "lost" Iraq. But a dangerous realpolitik is the new normal in Baghdad.

BY RAMZY MARDINI | MAY 20, 2013

What the Hell Was That All About?

After scaring the world witless, has North Korea slunk back into its cave?

BY AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER | MAY 20, 2013

Curing America's Fear of Commitment

Karzai is an ingrate, but the Afghans need us.

BY MARC CHRETIEN | MAY 20, 2013

Getting to Yes with the Taliban

The case for negotiating with terrorists.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MAY 20, 2013

The Moscow Rules Still Rule

The Cold War may be over, but spycraft hasn’t changed much since the good old days.

BY MILTON BEARDEN | MAY 17, 2013

Dead on Arrival

I co-wrote the Arab Peace Initiative. And I doubt Kerry's good-faith attempt to revive it will succeed.

BY MARWAN MUASHER | MAY 16, 2013

This Alliance Is Brought to You by the Letter 'M'

Introducing the world's most unlikely political grouping.

BY BRETT FORREST | MAY 14, 2013

Food Fight

Why is the agricultural lobby so mad at Obama?

BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 14, 2013

You Know It's Bad…

When progress in the Middle East seems more in reach than a Washington that works.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY 14, 2013

Oh, You Silly Man

How John Kerry got rolled by Vladimir Putin on a plan to save Syria.

BY MICHAEL WEISS | MAY 9, 2013