International Relations

The Empire Makes Nice

Is it time for a Venezuela reset?

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | MARCH 11, 2013

Gray Matter

How to fight Chinese cyber attacks without starting a cold war.

BY JOEL BRENNER | MARCH 8, 2013

It's Not You, It's Me

America's nukes are designed to comfort us, not scare the enemy.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | MARCH 8, 2013

Time Is Running Out on North Korea

Congress needs to make Pyongyang pay a price for its recklessness.

BY SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ | MARCH 7, 2013

A Very Special Envoy

Why Obama should make Dennis Rodman his man in Pyongyang. Seriously.

BY JOEL WIT, JENNY TOWN | MARCH 7, 2013

Tehran Tanking

Iran's popularity in the Arab world is way down, but sectarianism is on the rise.

BY MARC LYNCH | MARCH 7, 2013

Syria's House of Cards

After two years, 1 million refugees, and more than 70,000 dead, some Syrians -- and one American president -- are still looking to protect their own interests rather than save a country.

BY AMAL HANANO | MARCH 6, 2013

Alone in the Desert

How Camus explains France's troubling intervention in Mali.

BY ROBERT ZARETSKY | MARCH 5, 2013

Mind the Gap

Charles Kenny is too quick to call off the clash of civilizations.

MARCH 4, 2013

Innocents Abroad

When celebrities do diplomacy.

BY COLIN DAILEDA | MARCH 1, 2013

Pilgrims and Idiots

How celebrities should handle visits to authoritarian countries in today's world.

BY ARCH PUDDINGTON | MARCH 1, 2013

What Is Egypt?

As America's new secretary of state arrives in Cairo, it's still not clear the United States knows what it's dealing with.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | MARCH 1, 2013

How to Win a Cyberwar with China

It's time for the Obama administration to start playing offense, or it might soon have a real war on its hands.

BY DAN BLUMENTHAL | FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Dead-End Road

Rogue states have a pretty convincing track record of ignoring sanctions, so what makes Congress and the White House think they'll work on Iran?

BY TY MCCORMICK | FEBRUARY 28, 2013

While America Slept

How the United States botched China's rise.

BY KISHORE MAHBUBANI | FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The Fog of War Game

One-hundred sixty Stanford undergrads take on Iran.

BY AMY ZEGART | FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Tribes With Flags

How the Arab Spring has exposed the myth of Arab statehood.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The Russia Gambit

For the sake of Syrian lives, John Kerry’s got to play hardball with Moscow.

BY CHRISTOPHER S. CHIVVIS, EDWARD P. JOSEPH | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Does John Kerry Matter?

Why Obama's new secretary of state might not have much room to run.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The First Rule of Drone Club

The bad lessons Turkey learned from Obama's war from above.

BY AARON STEIN | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The New Westphalian Web

The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing.

BY KATHERINE MAHER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You Don't Know Chuck

Who said it: Sen. Hagel or the Shin Bet?

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Handle with Care

Japan is Washington's most important Asian ally. But in some ways it's also the trickiest.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Signal and the Noise

Why subtlety and national security don't mix.

BY MICAH ZENKO | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Iran Can’t Agree to a Damn Thing

Let's face it: The Islamic Republic is just too dysfunctional to cut a nuclear deal.

BY PATRICK CLAWSON | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The Kingdom of No Surprises

The more things change in Saudi Arabia, the more they remain the same.

BY MICHAEL STEPHENS | FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The Incredible Shrinking United Nations

Can anyone stop Turtle Bay from fading into obscurity?

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | FEBRUARY 15, 2013

What George W. Bush Did Right

The 43rd president of the United States did a great thing for humankind -- but most Americans have no idea.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Hate Obama's Drone War?

Blame the bleeding-heart human rights crusaders.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The Case for TAFTA

Why Obama's call for a free trade agreement between the United States and Europe could be a game-changer.

BY KATI SUOMINEN | FEBRUARY 13, 2013