Diplomacy

How Not to Lead the World

The U.N. General Assembly is providing a real-time seminar on failed leadership.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Peaceniks in Palestine

The PLO’s U.S. ambassador slams Mitt Romney’s leaked comments on the Middle East.

BY MAEN RASHID AREIKAT | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Problem with Patriotism

The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Keep on Tweetin'

The embassy debacle shouldn't end 21st-century #diplomacy.

BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Why U.S. Consulates Are More Dangerous Than War Zones

Our military provides comprehensive care and support to its troops and families. They should do the same for the civilians we send into harm's way.

BY PHILLIP CARTER | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Bunker Mentality

Can the U.S. keep diplomats safe without turning embassies into fortresses?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

America's Other Army

Interviews with diplomats in the line of fire -- an exclusive excerpt from the new book America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st Century Diplomacy.

BY NICHOLAS KRALEV | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It's Time to Act in Syria

Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.

BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The City with a Short Fuse

How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.

BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Gang That Can't Shoot Straight

The Syrian National Council has failed to galvanize international support for the rebellion -- and it has only itself to blame.

BY MALIK AL-ABDEH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Tensions in September

BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Sound and Sensible

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.

BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012

A Dangerous Mind

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a frightening return to a bullying neoconservative ideology -- and Americans should be worried.

BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | AUGUST 30, 2012

Powder Keg in the Pacific

China is rising -- fast and furious. So why can't the rest of Asia get its act together?

BY ROWAN CALLICK | AUGUST 22, 2012

Paul Ryan's Bad Idea for the Middle East

It's not true that Mitt Romney's veep choice is a complete neophyte on foreign policy. But his major foray abroad does not inspire confidence.

BY TY MCCORMICK | AUGUST 17, 2012

The Incredible Shrinking GOP Foreign-Policy Expert

Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan to be his vice president isn't surprising -- it's sadly indicative of the lack of worldly Republicans today.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 14, 2012

Junior Partner

How does Hillary Clinton stack up compared to her predecessors?

BY EDWARD S. MIHALKANIN | AUGUST 13, 2012

Making Friends with Friends

Mitt Romney, Charles Krauthammer, and conservative pundits are plain wrong: Barack Obama hasn't lost Europe. That was his predecessor's doing.

BY SEAN KAY | AUGUST 7, 2012

August Heats Up

Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012

Burma's Lost Boys

The government in Burma is promising to clean up its act. But the army is still recruiting child soldiers.

BY PATRICK BODENHAM | AUGUST 2, 2012

Uncultured

Mitt Romney don't know much about economic history.

BY DARON ACEMOGLU, JAMES A. ROBINSON | AUGUST 1, 2012

Local Bloodshed, Global Headache

Sectarian conflict in Burma is once again spurring talk of a “global war against Islam.”

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 1, 2012

The Angry Lightweight

What's worse than not having a coherent foreign policy? Mouthing off about it.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 31, 2012

North Korea's Extreme Makeover

Pyongyang's new leading man, Kim Jong Un, is all about the lulz. But there's nothing funny about life in the world's most repressive state.

BY BLAINE HARDEN | JULY 26, 2012

"The Elite Isn't Going to Lose Control"

Middle East scholar Joshua Stacher explains why democratization in Egypt is only skin deep.

BY PAUL STAROBIN | JULY 19, 2012

Rebuilding the Police in Kosovo

In the wake of its war with the Serbs, Kosovo faced a yawning law enforcement gap. Here's how the international community helped an embyronic country rebuild its police.

BY MORGAN GREENE, JONATHAN FRIEDMAN, RICHARD BENNET | JULY 18, 2012

July in Focus

The events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet military buildup in Cuba gathered momentum exactly half a century ago.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2012

Five Reasons Why the Two-State Solution Just Won't Die

For Middle East peace, it's the only game in town.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JULY 16, 2012

Talking a Great Game

So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012

Dereliction of Duty

A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.

BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012