Diplomacy

The Ground Truth from Benghazi

The politicians in Washington are beating each other up over the Benghazi consulate attack. But they don't seem to be paying much attention to the evidence from the scene of the crime.

BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | OCTOBER 16, 2012

A Revolutionary Foreign Policy

The Muslim Brotherhood's political party promises to transform Egypt's place in the world.

BY AMR DARRAG | OCTOBER 16, 2012

Of Myths and Missiles

What Les Gelb gets wrong about the Cuban missile crisis.

BY STEPHEN SESTANOVICH | OCTOBER 12, 2012

Will Iran Weather the Economic Storm?

The depreciation of the rial is unlikely to change Iran's foreign-policy calculations.

BY PATRICK CLAWSON | OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Sanctions Conundrum

Some say the sanctions against Tehran are working. But wasn't the Iranian economy already a basket case?

BY PETER PASSELL | OCTOBER 9, 2012

A Truly Credible Military Threat to Iran

The Israelis and the Americans are zeroing in on a strike option that has a real chance of deterring the mullahs -- and defusing Mitt Romney's attacks.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 8, 2012

The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy

It's time to set the record straight about John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis.

BY LESLIE H. GELB | NOVEMBER 2012

Better Late than Never

How naive self-confidence led Barack Obama astray, before prudence brought him back.

BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 5, 2012

The Asian Cold War

China and Japan's island spat is much more than a battle over a bunch of uninhabited rocks. And it won't be ending anytime soon.

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | OCTOBER 4, 2012

The Projectionist

Why Bibi can't scare the U.S. into bombing Iran.

BY MICAH ZENKO | OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Case for Humility

Why Israel and the United States should keep their disagreements to themselves.

BY DAVID MAKOVSKY | OCTOBER 2, 2012

Save Benghazi

How the citizens of Benghazi are pushing back against the killers of a U.S. diplomat many considered their friend.

BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Madam President?

While Barack Obama was off fighting to keep his job, Hillary Clinton was busy in New York doing it.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

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